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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:
1.473 wvdputte 31: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
32: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
33: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
34: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> will give an
35: "Introduction to OpenBSD" talk. Conference <a
36: href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php"> program</a> (in croatian
37: only).
38: <p>
39:
1.470 deraadt 40: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
1.476 deraadt 41: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.470 deraadt 42: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
43: Theo will present his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
1.471 deraadt 44: talk. There is a
45: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
1.470 deraadt 46: <p>
47:
1.446 wvdputte 48: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
49: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
1.448 aanriot 50: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
1.466 claudio 51: Claudio Jeker will give a talk about Routing with OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD.
1.467 mbalmer 52: <br>
1.468 mbalmer 53: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using OpenBSD" and a
54: second talk "OpenBSD as a Strategic Platform for the Basel Public Schools".
1.467 mbalmer 55: <br>
1.446 wvdputte 56: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
57: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
58: <p>
59:
1.461 reyk 60: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
61: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
62: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
63: David Gwynne will give a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
64: sensors in OpenBSD and Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest
1.462 reyk 65: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future, and
66: Peter Hansteen will give a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
67: will attend the conference as well, like the committee members
68: Bob Beck and Todd Miller.
1.461 reyk 69: <p>
70:
1.450 grunk 71: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
72: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
73: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 74: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
75: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
76: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 77: <p>
78:
1.446 wvdputte 79: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
80: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.477 martin 81: May 31 - June 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 82: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
83: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
84: <p>
85:
86: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
87: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
88: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
89: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 90: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 91: <p>
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1.152 jakob 94: <hr>
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1.152 jakob 109: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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1.455 grunk 111: <h3>2006</h3>
112: <ul>
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1.478 ! mbalmer 114: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
! 115: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
! 116: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
! 117: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
! 118: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
! 119: well received.
! 120: <br>
! 121: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
! 122: and we could draw a lot of attention.
! 123: <p>
! 124:
1.475 deraadt 125: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
126: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
127: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
128: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
129: Jason Dixon presented
130: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
131: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
132: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
133: <br>
134: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
135: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
139: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
140: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
141: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
142: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
143: <br>
144: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
145: on sale.
146: <p>
147:
1.469 tom 148: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
149: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
150: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
151: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
152: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
153: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
154: Peter N. M. Hansteen
155: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
156: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
157: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
158: drivers for OpenBSD".
159: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
160: <p>
161:
1.459 henning 162: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
163: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
164: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
165: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
166: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
167: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
168: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
169: <p>
170:
1.457 wvdputte 171: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
172: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
173: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
174: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 175: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 176: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
177: BSD dinner. More details and
178: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 179: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 180: <p>
181:
182: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
183: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
184: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
185: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
186: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
187: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
188: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
189: <p>
1.455 grunk 190:
1.456 henning 191: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
192: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
193: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
194: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
195: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
196: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
197: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
198: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
199: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
200: <p>
201:
1.455 grunk 202: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
203: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
204: </strong>,
205: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
206: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
207: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
208: <p>
209: </ul>
210:
1.296 mcbride 211: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 212:
213: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 214:
1.445 martin 215: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
216: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
217: Berlin</a></strong>,
218: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
219: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
220: <p>
221:
1.435 matthieu 222: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
223: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
224: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
225: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
226: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 227: event.
1.444 grunk 228: The program included a
229: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 230: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
231: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 232: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
233: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 234: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 235: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 236: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 237: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 238: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 239: <p>
1.435 matthieu 240: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
241: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
242: <p>
243:
1.434 bernd 244: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
245: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
246: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
247: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
248: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
249: <p>
250:
1.441 niallo 251: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
252: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
253: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
254: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
255: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
256: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
257: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
258: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
259: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
260: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
261: scripts.
262: <p>
263:
1.424 mbalmer 264: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
265: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
266: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 267: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
268: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
269: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 270: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 271: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 272: talks, including
273: <ul>
274: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
275: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
276: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
277: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
278: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
279: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 280: <p>
281:
282: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
283: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
284: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 285: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 286: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
287: <p>
288:
1.418 djm 289: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
290: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
291: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
292: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
293: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
294: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
295: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 296: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
297: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
298: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 299: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
300: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
301: <p>
302:
1.415 aanriot 303: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
304: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
305: 2005</a></strong>,
306: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
307: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
308: help of Thierry Thomas.
309: <p>
310:
1.420 deraadt 311: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
312: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
313: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
314: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
315: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
316: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
317: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
318: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
319: registration was mandatory.<br>
320: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 321: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 322: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
323: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
324: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 325: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 326: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
327: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
328: mechanism.
329: <p>
330:
1.414 bernd 331: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
332: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
333: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
334: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
335: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
336: <p>
337:
338: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
339: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
340: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
341: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
342: <p>
343:
1.410 wvdputte 344: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
345: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
346: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 347: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
348: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 349: <p>
350:
351: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
352: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
353: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
354: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 355: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 356: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
357: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
358: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
359: installed on your computer.
360: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 361: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 362: <p>
363:
1.404 wvdputte 364: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
365: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 366: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 367: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
368: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 369: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 370: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
371: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
372: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
373: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
374: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
375: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
379: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
380: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
381: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
382: <p>
383:
1.403 henning 384: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
385: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 386: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 387: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
388: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
389: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
390: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
391: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
392: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
393: <p>
394:
1.388 tom 395: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
396: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
397: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 398: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 399: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
400: <p>
401:
1.385 mickey 402: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 403: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 404: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 405: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
406: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 407: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
408: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 409: and an excellent
410: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
411: If you want to see what happened previously, check
412: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
413: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
414: <p>
415:
1.382 pedro 416: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 417: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 418: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 419: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
420: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
421: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 422: <p>
423:
1.378 aanriot 424: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
425: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 426: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 427: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
428: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
429: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
430: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 431: <p>
432:
1.375 grunk 433: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
434: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 435: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 436: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
437: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
438: <p>
439:
1.374 grunk 440: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
441: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 442: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 443: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
444: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
445: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
446: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
447: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
448: <p>
449:
1.371 deraadt 450: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
451: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 452: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 453: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
454: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
455: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
456: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
457: He demonstrated how companies can easily
458: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
459: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
460: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
461: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
462: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
463: <p>
464:
1.366 martin 465: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
466: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
467: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
468: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
469: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
470: CDs and shirts.
471: <p>
472:
1.365 mcbride 473: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
474: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
475: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
476: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
477: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
478: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
479: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
480: <br>
481: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
482: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
483: <p>
484:
1.362 reyk 485: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
486: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
487: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
488: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
489: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
490: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
491: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
492: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
493: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
494: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
495: <p>
496:
1.358 mcbride 497: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
498: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
499: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
500: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
501: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
502: <p>
503:
1.357 henning 504: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
505: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
506: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
507: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
508: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
509: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
510: <p>
511:
1.384 tom 512: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 513: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 514: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 515: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
516: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
517: packages work in front of about 30 people.
518: <p>
519:
1.353 henning 520: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
521: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 522: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 523: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
524: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
525: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
526: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 527: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 528: <p>
529:
1.352 henning 530: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
531: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 532: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 533: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
534: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
535: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
536: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
537: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
538: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
539: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
540: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
541: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
542: available if you couldn't make it there.
543: <p>
544:
1.350 marius 545: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
546:
547: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 548: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 549: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
550: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
551: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
552: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
553: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 554: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 555: <p>
556:
1.345 henning 557: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
558: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 559: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 560: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
561: <p>
562:
1.344 martin 563: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
564: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 565: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 566: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
567: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
568: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
569: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
570: (in French) are available.
571: <p>
572:
1.337 deraadt 573: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
574: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 575: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 576: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
577: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 578: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 579: source firewalls.
580: <p>
581:
1.317 henning 582: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
583: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
584: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 585: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 586: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 587: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 588: <p>
589:
1.312 deraadt 590: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
591: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
592: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 593: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
594: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 595: <p>
596:
1.319 saad 597: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
598: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
599: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
600: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
601: <p>
602:
1.310 mickey 603: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 604: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 605: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 606: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 607: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
608: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 609: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 610: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 611: <p>
1.312 deraadt 612:
1.308 deraadt 613: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
614: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
615: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
616: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 617: talks. Topics included
618: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 619: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
620: OpenBGPD, and pf.
621: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 622: <p>
623:
1.304 saad 624: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
625: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
626: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
627: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
628: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 629: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 630: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 631: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
632: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 633: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 634: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
635: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
636: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 637: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 638: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
639: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
640: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
641: <p>
1.301 saad 642: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
643: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
644: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
645: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
646: <p>
647: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
648: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
649: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
650: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
651: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
652: <p>
1.293 saad 653: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
654: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
655: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
656: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
657: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
658: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 659: french translation team.<br>
660: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
661: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
662: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
663: available.<br>
664: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 665: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
666: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
667: <p>
1.296 mcbride 668: </ul>
1.293 saad 669:
1.296 mcbride 670: <h3>2004</h3>
671:
672: <ul>
1.287 henning 673: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
674: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 675: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 676: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
677: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
678: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 679: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 680: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
681: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
682: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
683: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
684: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
685: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 686: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 687: driver.
688: <p>
1.248 deraadt 689:
1.286 kevlo 690: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 691: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 692: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
693: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
694: <p>
695:
1.285 deraadt 696: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
697: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
698: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
699: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
700: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
701: <p>
702:
1.283 saad 703: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
704: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
705: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
706: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
707: meeting of the
708: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
709: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 710: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 711: <p>
712:
1.282 henning 713: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
714: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
715: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
716: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
717: two days, on bgpd
718: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
719: ntpd
720: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
721: and signal handlers
722: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
723: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
724: <p>
725:
1.275 deraadt 726: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
727: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
728: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
729: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
730: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
731: Room B-02 of the
732: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
733: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
734: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
735: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
736: The talk was also given the following day at the
737: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
738: <p>
739:
1.271 henning 740: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
741: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
742: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 743: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
744: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 745: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 746: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 747: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 748: <p>
749:
750: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
751: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
752: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 753: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
754: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 755: <p>
756:
1.276 deraadt 757: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 758: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
759: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
760: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
761: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
762: <p>
763:
764: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 765: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
766: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 767: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 768: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 769: <p>
770:
771: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
772: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
773: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
774: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
775: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
776: <p>
777:
1.268 krw 778: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
779: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
780: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
781: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
782: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
783: <p>
784:
1.375 grunk 785: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 786: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
787: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
788: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
789: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
790: <p>
791:
792: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
793: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 794: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 795: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
796: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
797: <p>
798:
1.265 wvdputte 799: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
800: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 801: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 802: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
803: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
804: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
805: event."
806: <br>
807: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
808: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
809: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
810: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
811: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
812: <br>
813: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
814: <p>
815:
1.262 henning 816: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
817: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 818: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 819: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
820: Henning's slides from his talks about
821: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
822: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
823: are available.
824: <p>
825:
1.261 deraadt 826: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 827: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 828: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
829: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
830: newly extended version of the
831: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
832: For more information, see this
833: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
834: ComputerWorld article</a>.
835: <p>
836:
837:
1.257 saad 838: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
839: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 840: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 841: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
842: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
843: <p>
844:
845: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
846: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 847: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 848: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
849: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
850: <p>
851:
1.256 mickey 852: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 853: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 854: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
855: session.
856: <p>
857:
1.254 xsa 858: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 859: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 860: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
861: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
862: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
863: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
864: a basic talk about pf.
865: <p>
866:
1.248 deraadt 867: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 868: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 869: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
870: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 871: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
872: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
873: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 874: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
875: <p>
876:
1.247 canacar 877: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
878: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
879: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
880: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
881: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
882: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
883: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
884: projects were discussed.<br>
885: You can view the
1.281 canacar 886: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 887: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 888: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 889: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
890: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
891: <p>
892:
1.242 henning 893: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
894: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
895: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 896: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
897: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
898: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
899: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
900: and systrace
1.263 saad 901: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 902: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
903: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
904: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 905: <p>
906:
1.240 espie 907: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
908: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
909: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
910: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
911: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
912: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
916: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
917: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 918: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 919: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
920: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
921: <p>
922: </ul>
923:
1.188 henning 924: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 925:
926: <ul>
1.232 jose 927: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
928: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
929: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
930: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
931: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 932: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 933: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 934: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 935: <p>
1.232 jose 936:
1.228 jose 937: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 938: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 939: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
940: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 941: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
942: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 943: with OpenBSD PF.
944: <p>
945:
946: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
947: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
948: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
949: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
950: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 951: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
952: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
953: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
954: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 955: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 956: slides in PDF format </a>
957: (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 958: <p>
959:
1.227 jose 960: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
961: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
962: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
963: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
967: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 968: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 969: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 970: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 971: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
972: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 973: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 974: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 975: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 976: in Internet worm defenses.
977: <p>
978:
1.224 miod 979: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
980: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
981: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
982: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
983: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
984: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
985: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
986: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
987: OpenBSD.
988: <p>
989:
990: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
991: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
992: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
993: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
997: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
998: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
999: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1000: <p>
1001:
1.219 jose 1002: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1003: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1004: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1005: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1006: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1007: <p>
1008:
1.218 jose 1009: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1011: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1012: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1013: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1014: <p>
1015:
1.214 henning 1016: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1017: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1018: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1019: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1020: <p>
1021:
1.213 jose 1022: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1023: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1024: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1025: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1026: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1027: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1028: <p>
1029:
1.211 jose 1030: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1031: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1032: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1033: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1034: <p>
1035:
1036: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1037: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1038: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1039: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1040: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1041: <p>
1042:
1.209 wvdputte 1043: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1044: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1045: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1046: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1047: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1048:
1.202 jason 1049: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1050: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1051: Conference</a></strong>,
1052: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1053: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1054: <ul>
1.216 jose 1055: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1056: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1057: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1058: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1059: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1060: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1061: </ul>
1062: <p>
1063:
1.201 deraadt 1064: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1065: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1066: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1067: session.
1068: <p>
1069:
1.216 jose 1070: <li><strong>
1071: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1072: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1073: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1074: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1075: <p>
1076:
1.216 jose 1077: <li><strong>
1078: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1079: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1080: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1081: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1082: <p>
1083:
1.216 jose 1084: <li><strong>
1085: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1086: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1087: 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 1088: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1089: <p>
1090:
1.216 jose 1091: <li><strong>
1092: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1093: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1094: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1095: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1096: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1097: user groups.
1098: <p>
1099:
1.236 jose 1100: <li><strong>
1101: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1102: Group</a></strong>,
1103: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1104: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1105: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1106: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1107: <p>
1108:
1.216 jose 1109: <li><strong>
1110: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1111: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1112: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1113: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1114: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.216 jose 1117: <li><strong>
1118: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1119: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1120: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1121: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1122: <p>
1.236 jose 1123: </ul>
1.185 miod 1124:
1.161 millert 1125: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1126:
1127: <ul>
1128: <li><strong>
1129: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1130: Congress</a></strong>,
1131: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1132: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1133: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1134: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1135: <p>
1.177 jason 1136:
1.216 jose 1137: <li><strong>
1138: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1139: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1140: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1141: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1142: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1143: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1144: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1145: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1146: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1147: <p>
1.178 pb 1148:
1.216 jose 1149: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1150: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1151: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1152: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1153: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1154: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1155: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1156: <p>
1157:
1.216 jose 1158: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1159: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1160: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1161: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1162: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1163: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1164: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1165: <p>
1166:
1167: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1168: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1169: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1170: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1171: Niels Provos presented his
1172: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1173: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1174: <p>
1.172 miod 1175:
1.216 jose 1176: <li><strong>
1177: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1178: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1179: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.216 jose 1182: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1183: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1184: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1185: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1186: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1187: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1188: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1189: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1190: <p>
1.168 miod 1191:
1.216 jose 1192: <li><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1194: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1195: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1196: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1197: are available.
1.161 millert 1198: <p>
1199:
1.216 jose 1200: <li><strong>
1201: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1202: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1203: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1204: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1205: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1206: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1207: <p>
1208:
1.216 jose 1209: <li><strong>
1210: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1211: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1212: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1213: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1214: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1215: <p>
1.236 jose 1216: </ul>
1.164 millert 1217:
1.152 jakob 1218: <h3>2001</h3>
1219:
1.236 jose 1220: <ul>
1.216 jose 1221: <li><strong>
1222: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1223: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1224: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1225: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1226: <p>
1227:
1.216 jose 1228: <li><strong>
1229: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1230: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1231: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1232: <p>
1233:
1.158 deraadt 1234: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1235: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1236: 2001</a></strong>,
1237: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1238: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1239: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1240: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1241: <p>
1242:
1.216 jose 1243: <li><strong>
1244: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1245: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1246: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1247: <p>
1248:
1.201 deraadt 1249: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1250: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1251: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1252: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1253:
1.150 wvdputte 1254: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1255: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1256: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1257: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1258: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1259: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1260: <p>
1.137 aaron 1261:
1262: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1263: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1264: Conference</a></strong>,
1265: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1266: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1267: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1268: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1269: <p>
1270:
1271: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1272: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1273: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1274: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1275: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1276: <p>
1277:
1278: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1279: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1280: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1281: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1282: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1283: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1284: <p>
1285:
1286: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1287: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1288: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1289: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1290: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1291: <p>
1292:
1293: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1294: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1295: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1296: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1297: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1298: security community.
1299: <p>
1300:
1301: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1302: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1303: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1304: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1305: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1306: <p>
1307:
1308: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1309: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1310: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1311: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1312: <p>
1.236 jose 1313: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1314:
1.132 louis 1315: <h3>2000</h3>
1316:
1.236 jose 1317: <ul>
1.132 louis 1318: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1319: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1320: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1321: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1322: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1323: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1324: <p>
1325:
1326: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1327: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1329: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1330: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1331: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1332: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1333: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1334: <p>
1335:
1336: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1337: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1338: 2000</a></strong>,
1339: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1340: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1341: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1342: <p>
1.4 millert 1343:
1.132 louis 1344: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1345: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1346: Summit</a></strong>,
1347: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1348: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1349: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1350: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1351:
1352: <ul>
1.236 jose 1353: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1354: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1355: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1356: </ul>
1.4 millert 1357: <p>
1.132 louis 1358:
1.7 deraadt 1359: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1360: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1361: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1362: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1363: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1364: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1365: mind (drinks afterwards).
1366: <p>
1367:
1.216 jose 1368: <li><strong>
1369: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1370: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1371: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1372: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1373: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1374:
1.132 louis 1375: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1376: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1377: Revolution</a></strong>,
1378: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1379: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1380: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1381: <p>
1382:
1.132 louis 1383: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1385: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1386: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1387: <ul>
1.236 jose 1388: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1389: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1390: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1391: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1392: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1393: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1394: <p>
1.132 louis 1395:
1.10 provos 1396: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1397: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1398: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1399: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1400: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1401: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1402: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1403: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1404: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1405: <br>
1406: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1407: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1408: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1409:
1.132 louis 1410: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1411: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1412: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1413: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1414: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1415: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1416: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1417: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1418: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1419: and spoke about
1420: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1421: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1422: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1423: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1424: <p>
1.132 louis 1425:
1.6 deraadt 1426: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1427: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1428: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1429: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1430: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1431: <br>
1432: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1433: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1434: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1435: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1436:
1.216 jose 1437: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1438: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1439: Conference.</a></strong>,
1440: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1441: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1442: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1443: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1444: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1445: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1446: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1447: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1448: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1449: <ul>
1450:
1451: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1452: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1453: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1454: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1455: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1456:
1457: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1458: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1459: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1460: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1461: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1462:
1.132 louis 1463: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1464: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1465: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1466: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1467: <p>
1468:
1.132 louis 1469: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1470: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1471: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1472: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1473: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1474: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1475: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1476: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1477:
1.132 louis 1478: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1479: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1480: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1481: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1482: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1483: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1484: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1485: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1486: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1487:
1.17 deraadt 1488: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1489: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1490: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1491: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1492: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1493: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1494: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1495: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1496: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1497:
1.23 niklas 1498: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1499: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1500: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1501: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1502: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1503: efforts.
1504: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1505: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1506: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1507: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1508: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1509: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1510:
1.132 louis 1511: <li><strong>
1512: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1513: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1514: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1515: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1516: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1517: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1518: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1519: <p>
1.23 niklas 1520:
1.31 deraadt 1521: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1522: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1523: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1524: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1525: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1526: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1527: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1528: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1529: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1530: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1531:
1.201 deraadt 1532: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1533: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1534: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1535: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1536: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1537: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1538: <p>
1.236 jose 1539: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1540:
1.132 louis 1541: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1542:
1.236 jose 1543: <ul>
1.216 jose 1544: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1545: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1546: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1547: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1548: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1549: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1550: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1551: <p>
1552:
1.216 jose 1553: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1554: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1555: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1556: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1557: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1558: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1559: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1560: There were many other OpenBSD
1561: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1562: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1563:
1564: <ul>
1565: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1566: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1567: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1568: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1569: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1570: </ul>
1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1574: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1575: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1576: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1577: <p>
1578:
1579: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1580: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1581: Software '99</a></strong>,
1582: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1583: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1584: <a
1.375 grunk 1585: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1586: <p>
1587:
1588: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1589: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1590: 1999</a></strong>,
1591: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1592: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1593: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1594: <p>
1595:
1.236 jose 1596: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1597: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1598: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1599: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1600: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1601: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1602: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1603: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1604: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1605: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1606: conference in Stockholm.
1607: <p>
1608:
1609: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1610: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1611: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1612: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1613: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1614: coordinated.
1615: <p>
1616:
1617: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1618: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1619: Security</a></strong>,
1620: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1621: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1622: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1623: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1624: significant security roles.
1625: <p>
1626:
1627: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1628: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1629: meeting</a></strong>,
1630: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1631: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1632: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1633: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1634: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1635: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1636: <p>
1.45 jason 1637:
1.132 louis 1638: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1640: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1641: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1642: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1643: <p>
1.132 louis 1644:
1.236 jose 1645: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1646: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1647: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1648: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1649: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1650: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1651: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1652: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1653: June.)
1.132 louis 1654: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1655: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1656: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1657:
1.375 grunk 1658: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1659: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1660: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1661: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1662: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1663: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1664: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1665: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1666: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1668: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1670: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1671: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1672: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1673: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1674: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1675: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1676: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1677: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1678: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1679: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1680: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1681: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1682: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1683: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1684: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1685: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1686:
1.51 deraadt 1687: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1689: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1690: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1691: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1692: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1693: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1694: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1695: <p>
1696:
1.53 jakob 1697: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1698: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1699: meeting</a></strong>,
1700: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1701: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1702: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1703: <p>
1704:
1.132 louis 1705: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1706: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1707: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1708: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1709: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1710: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1711: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1712: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1713: <p>
1.236 jose 1714: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1715:
1.132 louis 1716: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1717:
1.236 jose 1718: <ul>
1.132 louis 1719: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1720: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1721: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1722: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1723: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1724: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1725: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1726: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1727: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1728: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1729: <p>
1730:
1.236 jose 1731: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1732: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1733: Conference</a></strong>,
1734: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1735: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1736: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1737: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1738: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1739: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1740: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1741: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1742: <br>
1743: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1744: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1745: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1746: <p>
1747:
1.73 deraadt 1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1750: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1751: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1752: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1753: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1754: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1755: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1756: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1757:
1.236 jose 1758: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1759: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1760: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1761: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1762: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1763: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1764: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1765: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1766:
1.80 deraadt 1767: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1768: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1769: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1770: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1771: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1772: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1773: <p>
1774:
1.93 louis 1775: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1776: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1777: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1778: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1779: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1780: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1781: <p>
1782:
1.216 jose 1783: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1784: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1785: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1786: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1787: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1788: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1789: <p>
1790:
1.236 jose 1791: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1792: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1793: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1794: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1795: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1796: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1797: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1798: <br>
1799: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1800: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1801: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1802: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1803: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1804:
1.236 jose 1805: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1806: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1807: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1808: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1809: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1810: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1811: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1812: <p>
1813:
1.236 jose 1814: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1815: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1816: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1817: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1818: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1819: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1820: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1821: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1822: <br>
1823: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1824: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1825: <p>
1826:
1.105 wvdputte 1827: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1828: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1829: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1830: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1831: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1832: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1833: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1834: <br>
1.132 louis 1835: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1836: <p>
1.236 jose 1837: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1838:
1.132 louis 1839: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1840:
1.236 jose 1841: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1842: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1843: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1844: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1845: Niels held a
1846: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1847: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1848: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1849: <p>
1.132 louis 1850:
1.236 jose 1851: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1852: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1853: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1854: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1855: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1856: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1857:
1.236 jose 1858: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1859: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1860: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1861: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1862: <br>
1863: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1864: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1865: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1866: <p>
1867:
1.125 deraadt 1868: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1869: <a
1870: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1871: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1872: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1873: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1874: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1875:
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