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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:
1.454 henning 31: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
32: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
33: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
34: Henning Brauer will talk about OpenBGPD and OpenBGPD at DE-CIX.
35: <p>
36:
1.447 wvdputte 37: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
38: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
39: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
40: Please email <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> for information about
41: these small meetings.
42: <p>
43:
1.445 martin 44: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
45: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
46: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
47: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth will be present, run by the usual gang of suspects.
1.386 wvdputte 48: <p>
49:
1.446 wvdputte 50: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
51: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
52: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen<br>
53: Wim and Felix Kronlage will hold a talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
1.454 henning 54: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups. Henning Brauer will talk
55: about OpenBGPD.
1.446 wvdputte 56: <p>
57:
1.449 reyk 58: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
59: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
1.450 grunk 60: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
1.449 reyk 61: Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest wireless support in
62: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
1.450 grunk 63: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.<br>
64: <a href="mailto:peter@bgnett.no">Peter N. M. Hansteen</a>
1.452 grunk 65: will give a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove will present "Exploit
66: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin will give a
67: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
68: drivers for OpenBSD".
1.449 reyk 69: <p>
70:
1.446 wvdputte 71: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
72: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
1.448 aanriot 73: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 74: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
75: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
76: <p>
77:
1.450 grunk 78: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
79: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
80: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 81: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
82: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
83: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 84: <p>
85:
1.446 wvdputte 86: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
87: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
88: To be announced, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
89: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
90: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
94: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
95: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
96: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 97: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 98: <p>
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1.152 jakob 116: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.455 ! grunk 118: <h3>2006</h3>
! 119: <ul>
! 120:
! 121: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
! 122: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
! 123: </strong>,
! 124: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
! 125: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
! 126: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
! 127: <p>
! 128: </ul>
! 129:
1.296 mcbride 130: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 131:
132: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 133:
1.445 martin 134: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
135: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
136: Berlin</a></strong>,
137: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
138: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
139: <p>
140:
1.435 matthieu 141: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
142: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
143: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
144: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
145: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 146: event.
1.444 grunk 147: The program included a
148: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 149: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
150: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 151: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
152: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 153: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 154: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 155: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 156: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 157: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 158: <p>
1.435 matthieu 159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
160: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
161: <p>
162:
1.434 bernd 163: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
164: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
165: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
166: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
167: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
168: <p>
169:
1.441 niallo 170: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
171: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
172: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
173: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
174: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
175: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
176: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
177: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
178: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
179: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
180: scripts.
181: <p>
182:
1.424 mbalmer 183: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
184: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
185: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 186: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
187: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
188: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 189: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 190: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 191: talks, including
192: <ul>
193: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
194: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
195: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
196: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
197: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
198: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 199: <p>
200:
201: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
202: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
203: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 204: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 205: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
206: <p>
207:
1.418 djm 208: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
209: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
210: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
211: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
212: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
213: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
214: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 215: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
216: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
217: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 218: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
219: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
220: <p>
221:
1.415 aanriot 222: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
223: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
224: 2005</a></strong>,
225: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
226: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
227: help of Thierry Thomas.
228: <p>
229:
1.420 deraadt 230: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
231: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
232: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
233: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
234: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
235: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
236: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
237: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
238: registration was mandatory.<br>
239: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 240: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 241: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
242: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
243: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 244: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 245: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
246: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
247: mechanism.
248: <p>
249:
1.414 bernd 250: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
251: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
252: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
253: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
254: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
258: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
259: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
260: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
261: <p>
262:
1.410 wvdputte 263: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
264: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
265: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 266: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
267: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 268: <p>
269:
270: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
271: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
272: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
273: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 274: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 275: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
276: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
277: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
278: installed on your computer.
279: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 280: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 281: <p>
282:
1.404 wvdputte 283: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
284: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 285: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 286: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
287: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 288: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 289: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
290: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
291: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
292: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
293: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
294: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
295: <p>
296:
297: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
298: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
299: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
300: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
301: <p>
302:
1.403 henning 303: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
304: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 305: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 306: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
307: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
308: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
309: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
310: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
311: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
312: <p>
313:
1.388 tom 314: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
315: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
316: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 317: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 318: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
319: <p>
320:
1.385 mickey 321: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 322: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 323: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 324: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
325: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 326: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
327: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 328: and an excellent
329: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
330: If you want to see what happened previously, check
331: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
332: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
333: <p>
334:
1.382 pedro 335: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
336: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 337: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 338: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
339: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
340: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 341: <p>
342:
1.378 aanriot 343: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
344: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 345: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 346: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
347: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
348: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
349: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 350: <p>
351:
1.375 grunk 352: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
353: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 354: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 355: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
356: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
357: <p>
358:
1.374 grunk 359: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
360: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 361: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 362: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
363: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
364: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
365: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
366: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
367: <p>
368:
1.371 deraadt 369: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
370: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 371: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 372: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
373: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
374: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
375: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
376: He demonstrated how companies can easily
377: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
378: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
379: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
380: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
381: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
382: <p>
383:
1.366 martin 384: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
385: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
386: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
387: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
388: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
389: CDs and shirts.
390: <p>
391:
1.365 mcbride 392: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
393: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
394: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
395: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
396: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
397: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
398: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
399: <br>
400: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
401: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
402: <p>
403:
1.362 reyk 404: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
405: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
406: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
407: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
408: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
409: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
410: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
411: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
412: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
413: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
414: <p>
415:
1.358 mcbride 416: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
417: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
418: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
419: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
420: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
421: <p>
422:
1.357 henning 423: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
424: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
425: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
426: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
427: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
428: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
429: <p>
430:
1.384 tom 431: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 432: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 433: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 434: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
435: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
436: packages work in front of about 30 people.
437: <p>
438:
1.353 henning 439: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
440: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 441: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 442: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
443: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
444: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
445: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 446: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 447: <p>
448:
1.352 henning 449: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
450: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 451: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 452: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
453: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
454: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
455: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
456: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
457: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
458: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
459: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
460: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
461: available if you couldn't make it there.
462: <p>
463:
1.350 marius 464: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
465:
466: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 467: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 468: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
469: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
470: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
471: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
472: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 473: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 474: <p>
475:
1.345 henning 476: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
477: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 478: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 479: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
480: <p>
481:
1.344 martin 482: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
483: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 484: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 485: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
486: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
487: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
488: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
489: (in French) are available.
490: <p>
491:
1.337 deraadt 492: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
493: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 494: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 495: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
496: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 497: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 498: source firewalls.
499: <p>
500:
1.317 henning 501: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
502: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
503: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 504: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 505: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 506: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 507: <p>
508:
1.312 deraadt 509: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
510: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
511: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 512: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
513: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 514: <p>
515:
1.319 saad 516: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
517: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
518: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
519: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
520: <p>
521:
1.310 mickey 522: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 523: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 524: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 525: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 526: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
527: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 528: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 529: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 530: <p>
1.312 deraadt 531:
1.308 deraadt 532: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
533: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
534: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
535: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 536: talks. Topics included
537: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 538: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
539: OpenBGPD, and pf.
540: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 541: <p>
542:
1.304 saad 543: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
544: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
545: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
546: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
547: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 548: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 549: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 550: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
551: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 552: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 553: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
554: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
555: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 556: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 557: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
558: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
559: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
560: <p>
1.301 saad 561: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
562: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
563: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
564: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
565: <p>
566: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
567: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
568: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
569: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
570: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
571: <p>
1.293 saad 572: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
573: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
574: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
575: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
576: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
577: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 578: french translation team.<br>
579: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
580: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
581: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
582: available.<br>
583: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 584: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
585: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
586: <p>
1.296 mcbride 587: </ul>
1.293 saad 588:
1.296 mcbride 589: <h3>2004</h3>
590:
591: <ul>
1.287 henning 592: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
593: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 594: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 595: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
596: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
597: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 598: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 599: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
600: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
601: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
602: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
603: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
604: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 605: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 606: driver.
607: <p>
1.248 deraadt 608:
1.286 kevlo 609: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 610: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 611: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
612: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
613: <p>
614:
1.285 deraadt 615: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
616: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
617: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
618: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
619: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
620: <p>
621:
1.283 saad 622: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
623: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
624: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
625: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
626: meeting of the
627: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
628: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 629: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 630: <p>
631:
1.282 henning 632: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
633: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
634: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
635: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
636: two days, on bgpd
637: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
638: ntpd
639: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
640: and signal handlers
641: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
642: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
643: <p>
644:
1.275 deraadt 645: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
646: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
647: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
648: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
649: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
650: Room B-02 of the
651: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
652: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
653: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
654: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
655: The talk was also given the following day at the
656: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
657: <p>
658:
1.271 henning 659: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
660: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
661: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 662: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
663: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 664: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 665: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 666: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 667: <p>
668:
669: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
670: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
671: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 672: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
673: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 674: <p>
675:
1.276 deraadt 676: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 677: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
678: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
679: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
680: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 684: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
685: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 686: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 687: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 688: <p>
689:
690: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
691: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
692: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
693: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
694: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
695: <p>
696:
1.268 krw 697: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
698: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
699: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
700: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
701: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
702: <p>
703:
1.375 grunk 704: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 705: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
706: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
707: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
708: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
712: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 713: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 714: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
715: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
716: <p>
717:
1.265 wvdputte 718: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
719: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 720: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 721: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
722: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
723: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
724: event."
725: <br>
726: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
727: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
728: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
729: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
730: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
731: <br>
732: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
733: <p>
734:
1.262 henning 735: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
736: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 737: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 738: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
739: Henning's slides from his talks about
740: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
741: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
742: are available.
743: <p>
744:
1.261 deraadt 745: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 746: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 747: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
748: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
749: newly extended version of the
750: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
751: For more information, see this
752: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
753: ComputerWorld article</a>.
754: <p>
755:
756:
1.257 saad 757: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
758: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 759: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 760: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
761: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
762: <p>
763:
764: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
765: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 766: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 767: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
768: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
769: <p>
770:
1.256 mickey 771: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 772: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 773: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
774: session.
775: <p>
776:
1.254 xsa 777: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 778: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 779: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
780: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
781: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
782: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
783: a basic talk about pf.
784: <p>
785:
1.248 deraadt 786: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 787: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 788: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
789: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 790: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
791: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
792: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 793: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
794: <p>
795:
1.247 canacar 796: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
797: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
798: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
799: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
800: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
801: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
802: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
803: projects were discussed.<br>
804: You can view the
1.281 canacar 805: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 806: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 807: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 808: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
809: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
810: <p>
811:
1.242 henning 812: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
813: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
814: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 815: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
816: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
817: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
818: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
819: and systrace
1.263 saad 820: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 821: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
822: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
823: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 824: <p>
825:
1.240 espie 826: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
827: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
828: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
829: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
830: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
831: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
832: <p>
833:
834: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
835: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
836: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 837: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 838: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
839: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
840: <p>
841: </ul>
842:
1.188 henning 843: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 844:
845: <ul>
1.232 jose 846: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
847: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
848: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
849: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
850: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 851: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 852: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 853: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 854: <p>
1.232 jose 855:
1.228 jose 856: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 857: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 858: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
859: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 860: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
861: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 862: with OpenBSD PF.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
866: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
867: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
868: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
869: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 870: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
871: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
872: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
873: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 874: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 875: slides in PDF format </a>
876: (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 877: <p>
878:
1.227 jose 879: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
880: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
881: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
882: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
883: <p>
884:
885: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
886: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 887: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 888: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 889: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 890: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
891: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 892: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 893: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 894: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 895: in Internet worm defenses.
896: <p>
897:
1.224 miod 898: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
899: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
900: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
901: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
902: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
903: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
904: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
905: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
906: OpenBSD.
907: <p>
908:
909: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
910: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
911: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
912: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
916: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
917: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
918: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
919: <p>
920:
1.219 jose 921: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
922: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
923: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 924: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 925: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
926: <p>
927:
1.218 jose 928: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
929: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
930: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 931: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 932: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
933: <p>
934:
1.214 henning 935: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
936: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 937: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 938: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
939: <p>
940:
1.213 jose 941: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
942: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 943: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 944: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 945: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
946: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
947: <p>
948:
1.211 jose 949: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
950: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 951: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 952: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
956: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 957: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 958: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 959: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
960: <p>
961:
1.209 wvdputte 962: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
963: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 964: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 965: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
966: <p>
1.195 deraadt 967:
1.202 jason 968: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 969: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 970: Conference</a></strong>,
971: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 972: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
973: <ul>
1.216 jose 974: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 975: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 976: Angelos D. Keromytis,
977: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 978: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 979: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
980: </ul>
981: <p>
982:
1.201 deraadt 983: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 984: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 985: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
986: session.
987: <p>
988:
1.216 jose 989: <li><strong>
990: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
991: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 992: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
993: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
994: <p>
995:
1.216 jose 996: <li><strong>
997: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
998: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 999: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1000: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1001: <p>
1002:
1.216 jose 1003: <li><strong>
1004: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1005: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1006: 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 1007: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1008: <p>
1009:
1.216 jose 1010: <li><strong>
1011: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1012: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1013: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1014: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1015: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1016: user groups.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.236 jose 1019: <li><strong>
1020: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1021: Group</a></strong>,
1022: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1023: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1024: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1025: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1026: <p>
1027:
1.216 jose 1028: <li><strong>
1029: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1030: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1031: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1032: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1033: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1034: <p>
1035:
1.216 jose 1036: <li><strong>
1037: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1038: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1039: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1040: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1041: <p>
1.236 jose 1042: </ul>
1.185 miod 1043:
1.161 millert 1044: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1045:
1046: <ul>
1047: <li><strong>
1048: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1049: Congress</a></strong>,
1050: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1051: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1052: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1053: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1054: <p>
1.177 jason 1055:
1.216 jose 1056: <li><strong>
1057: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1058: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1059: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1060: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1061: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1062: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1063: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1064: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1065: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1066: <p>
1.178 pb 1067:
1.216 jose 1068: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1069: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1070: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1071: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1072: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1073: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1074: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1075: <p>
1076:
1.216 jose 1077: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1078: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1079: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1080: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1081: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1082: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1083: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1087: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1088: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1089: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1090: Niels Provos presented his
1091: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1092: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1093: <p>
1.172 miod 1094:
1.216 jose 1095: <li><strong>
1096: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1097: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1098: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1099: <p>
1100:
1.216 jose 1101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1102: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1103: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1104: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1105: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1106: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1107: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1108: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1109: <p>
1.168 miod 1110:
1.216 jose 1111: <li><strong>
1112: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1113: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1114: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1115: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1116: are available.
1.161 millert 1117: <p>
1118:
1.216 jose 1119: <li><strong>
1120: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1121: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1122: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1123: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1124: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1125: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1126: <p>
1127:
1.216 jose 1128: <li><strong>
1129: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1130: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1131: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1132: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1133: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1134: <p>
1.236 jose 1135: </ul>
1.164 millert 1136:
1.152 jakob 1137: <h3>2001</h3>
1138:
1.236 jose 1139: <ul>
1.216 jose 1140: <li><strong>
1141: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1142: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1143: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1144: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1145: <p>
1146:
1.216 jose 1147: <li><strong>
1148: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1149: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1150: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1151: <p>
1152:
1.158 deraadt 1153: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1154: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1155: 2001</a></strong>,
1156: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1157: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1158: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1159: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1160: <p>
1161:
1.216 jose 1162: <li><strong>
1163: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1164: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1165: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1166: <p>
1167:
1.201 deraadt 1168: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1169: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1170: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1171: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1172:
1.150 wvdputte 1173: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1174: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1175: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1176: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1177: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1178: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1179: <p>
1.137 aaron 1180:
1181: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1182: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1183: Conference</a></strong>,
1184: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1185: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1186: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1187: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1188: <p>
1189:
1190: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1191: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1192: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1193: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1194: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1198: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1199: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1200: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1201: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1202: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1203: <p>
1204:
1205: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1206: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1207: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1208: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1209: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1210: <p>
1211:
1212: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1213: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1214: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1215: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1216: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1217: security community.
1218: <p>
1219:
1220: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1222: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1223: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1224: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1225: <p>
1226:
1227: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1228: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1229: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1230: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1231: <p>
1.236 jose 1232: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1233:
1.132 louis 1234: <h3>2000</h3>
1235:
1.236 jose 1236: <ul>
1.132 louis 1237: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1238: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1239: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1240: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1241: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1242: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1243: <p>
1244:
1245: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1246: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1247: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1248: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1249: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1250: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1251: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1252: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1253: <p>
1254:
1255: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1257: 2000</a></strong>,
1258: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1259: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1260: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1261: <p>
1.4 millert 1262:
1.132 louis 1263: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1264: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1265: Summit</a></strong>,
1266: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1267: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1268: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1269: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1270:
1271: <ul>
1.236 jose 1272: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1273: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1274: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1275: </ul>
1.4 millert 1276: <p>
1.132 louis 1277:
1.7 deraadt 1278: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1279: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1280: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1281: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1282: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1283: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1284: mind (drinks afterwards).
1285: <p>
1286:
1.216 jose 1287: <li><strong>
1288: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1289: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1290: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1291: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1292: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1293:
1.132 louis 1294: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1295: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1296: Revolution</a></strong>,
1297: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1298: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1299: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1300: <p>
1301:
1.132 louis 1302: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1303: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1304: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1305: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1306: <ul>
1.236 jose 1307: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1308: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1309: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1310: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1311: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1312: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1313: <p>
1.132 louis 1314:
1.10 provos 1315: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1316: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1317: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1318: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1319: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1320: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1321: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1322: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1323: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1324: <br>
1325: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1326: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1327: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1328:
1.132 louis 1329: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1330: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1331: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1332: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1333: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1334: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1335: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1336: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1337: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1338: and spoke about
1339: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1340: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1341: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1342: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1343: <p>
1.132 louis 1344:
1.6 deraadt 1345: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1346: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1347: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1348: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1349: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1350: <br>
1351: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1352: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1353: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1354: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1355:
1.216 jose 1356: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1357: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1358: Conference.</a></strong>,
1359: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1360: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1361: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1362: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1363: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1364: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1365: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1366: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1367: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1368: <ul>
1369:
1370: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1371: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1372: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1373: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1374: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1375:
1376: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1377: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1378: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1379: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1380: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1381:
1.132 louis 1382: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1383: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1384: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1385: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1386: <p>
1387:
1.132 louis 1388: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1389: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1390: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1391: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1392: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1393: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1394: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1395: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1396:
1.132 louis 1397: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1398: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1399: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1400: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1401: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1402: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1403: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1404: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1405: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1406:
1.17 deraadt 1407: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1408: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1409: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1410: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1411: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1412: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1413: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1414: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1415: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1416:
1.23 niklas 1417: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1418: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1419: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1420: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1421: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1422: efforts.
1423: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1424: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1425: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1426: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1427: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1428: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1429:
1.132 louis 1430: <li><strong>
1431: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1432: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1433: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1434: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1435: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1436: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1437: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1438: <p>
1.23 niklas 1439:
1.31 deraadt 1440: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1441: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1442: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1443: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1444: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1445: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1446: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1447: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1448: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1449: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1450:
1.201 deraadt 1451: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1452: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1453: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1454: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1455: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1456: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1457: <p>
1.236 jose 1458: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1459:
1.132 louis 1460: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1461:
1.236 jose 1462: <ul>
1.216 jose 1463: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1464: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1465: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1466: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1467: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1468: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1469: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1470: <p>
1471:
1.216 jose 1472: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1473: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1474: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1475: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1476: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1477: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1478: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1479: There were many other OpenBSD
1480: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1481: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1482:
1483: <ul>
1484: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1485: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1486: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1487: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1488: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1489: </ul>
1490: <p>
1491:
1492: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1493: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1494: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1495: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1496: <p>
1497:
1498: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1499: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1500: Software '99</a></strong>,
1501: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1502: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1503: <a
1.375 grunk 1504: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1505: <p>
1506:
1507: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1508: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1509: 1999</a></strong>,
1510: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1511: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1512: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1513: <p>
1514:
1.236 jose 1515: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1516: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1517: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1518: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1519: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1520: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1521: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1522: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1523: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1524: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1525: conference in Stockholm.
1526: <p>
1527:
1528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1529: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1530: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1531: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1532: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1533: coordinated.
1534: <p>
1535:
1536: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1537: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1538: Security</a></strong>,
1539: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1540: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1541: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1542: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1543: significant security roles.
1544: <p>
1545:
1546: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1547: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1548: meeting</a></strong>,
1549: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1550: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1551: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1552: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1553: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1554: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1555: <p>
1.45 jason 1556:
1.132 louis 1557: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1558: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1559: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1560: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1561: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1562: <p>
1.132 louis 1563:
1.236 jose 1564: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1565: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1566: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1567: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1568: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1569: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1570: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1571: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1572: June.)
1.132 louis 1573: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1574: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1575: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1576:
1.375 grunk 1577: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1578: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1579: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1580: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1581: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1582: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1583: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1584: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1585: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1586: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1587: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1588: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1589: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1590: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1591: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1592: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1593: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1594: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1595: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1596: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1597: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1598: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1599: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1600: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1601: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1602: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1603: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1604: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1605:
1.51 deraadt 1606: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1607: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1608: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1609: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1610: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1611: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1612: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1613: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1614: <p>
1615:
1.53 jakob 1616: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1617: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1618: meeting</a></strong>,
1619: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1620: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1621: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1622: <p>
1623:
1.132 louis 1624: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1625: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1626: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1627: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1628: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1629: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1630: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1631: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1632: <p>
1.236 jose 1633: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1634:
1.132 louis 1635: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1636:
1.236 jose 1637: <ul>
1.132 louis 1638: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1640: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1641: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1642: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1643: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1644: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1645: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1646: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1647: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1648: <p>
1649:
1.236 jose 1650: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1651: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1652: Conference</a></strong>,
1653: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1654: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1655: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1656: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1657: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1658: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1659: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1660: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1661: <br>
1662: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1663: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1664: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1665: <p>
1666:
1.73 deraadt 1667: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1668: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1669: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1670: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1671: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1672: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1673: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1674: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1675: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1676:
1.236 jose 1677: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1678: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1679: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1680: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1681: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1682: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1683: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1684: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1685:
1.80 deraadt 1686: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1687: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1688: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1689: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1690: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1691: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1692: <p>
1693:
1.93 louis 1694: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1695: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1696: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1697: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1698: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1699: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1700: <p>
1701:
1.216 jose 1702: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1703: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1704: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1705: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1706: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1707: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1708: <p>
1709:
1.236 jose 1710: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1711: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1712: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1713: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1714: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1715: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1716: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1717: <br>
1718: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1719: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1720: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1721: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1722: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1723:
1.236 jose 1724: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1725: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1726: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1727: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1728: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1729: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1730: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1731: <p>
1732:
1.236 jose 1733: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1734: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1735: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1736: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1737: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1738: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1739: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1740: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1741: <br>
1742: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1743: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1744: <p>
1745:
1.105 wvdputte 1746: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1747: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1748: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1749: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1750: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1751: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1752: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1753: <br>
1.132 louis 1754: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1755: <p>
1.236 jose 1756: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1757:
1.132 louis 1758: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1759:
1.236 jose 1760: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1761: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1763: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1764: Niels held a
1765: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1766: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1767: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1768: <p>
1.132 louis 1769:
1.236 jose 1770: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1771: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1772: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1773: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1774: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1775: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1776:
1.236 jose 1777: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1778: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1779: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1780: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1781: <br>
1782: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1783: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1784: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1785: <p>
1786:
1.125 deraadt 1787: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1788: <a
1789: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1790: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1791: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1792: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1793: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1794:
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1798: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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