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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.
1.8 deraadt 22:
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:
1.470 deraadt 31: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
1.476 deraadt 32: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.470 deraadt 33: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
34: Theo will present his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
1.471 deraadt 35: talk. There is a
36: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
1.470 deraadt 37: <p>
38:
1.446 wvdputte 39: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
40: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
1.448 aanriot 41: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
1.466 claudio 42: Claudio Jeker will give a talk about Routing with OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD.
1.467 mbalmer 43: <br>
1.468 mbalmer 44: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using OpenBSD" and a
45: second talk "OpenBSD as a Strategic Platform for the Basel Public Schools".
1.467 mbalmer 46: <br>
1.446 wvdputte 47: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
48: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
49: <p>
50:
1.461 reyk 51: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
52: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
53: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
54: David Gwynne will give a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
55: sensors in OpenBSD and Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest
1.462 reyk 56: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future, and
57: Peter Hansteen will give a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
58: will attend the conference as well, like the committee members
59: Bob Beck and Todd Miller.
1.461 reyk 60: <p>
61:
1.450 grunk 62: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
63: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
64: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 65: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
66: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
67: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 68: <p>
69:
1.446 wvdputte 70: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
71: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.477 martin 72: May 31 - June 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 73: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
74: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
78: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
79: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
80: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 81: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 82: <p>
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1.152 jakob 100: <h2>Past events:</h2>
101:
1.455 grunk 102: <h3>2006</h3>
103: <ul>
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1.478 mbalmer 105: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
106: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
107: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
108: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
109: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
110: well received.
111: <br>
112: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
113: and we could draw a lot of attention.
114: <p>
115:
1.479 deraadt 116: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
117: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
118: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
119: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 ! mbalmer 120: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
! 121: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
! 122: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 123: only).
124: <p>
125:
1.475 deraadt 126: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
127: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
128: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
129: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
130: Jason Dixon presented
131: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
132: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
133: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
134: <br>
135: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
136: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
140: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
141: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
142: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
143: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
144: <br>
145: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
146: on sale.
147: <p>
148:
1.469 tom 149: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
150: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
151: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
152: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
153: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
154: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
155: Peter N. M. Hansteen
156: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
157: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
158: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
159: drivers for OpenBSD".
160: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
161: <p>
162:
1.459 henning 163: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
164: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
165: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
166: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
167: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
168: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
169: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
170: <p>
171:
1.457 wvdputte 172: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
173: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
174: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
175: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 176: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 177: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
178: BSD dinner. More details and
179: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 180: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 181: <p>
182:
183: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
184: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
185: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
186: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
187: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
188: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
189: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
190: <p>
1.455 grunk 191:
1.456 henning 192: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
193: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
194: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
195: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
196: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
197: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
198: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
199: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
200: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
201: <p>
202:
1.455 grunk 203: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
204: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
205: </strong>,
206: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
207: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
208: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
209: <p>
210: </ul>
211:
1.296 mcbride 212: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 213:
214: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 215:
1.445 martin 216: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
217: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
218: Berlin</a></strong>,
219: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
220: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
221: <p>
222:
1.435 matthieu 223: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
224: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
225: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
226: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
227: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 228: event.
1.444 grunk 229: The program included a
230: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 231: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
232: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 233: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
234: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 235: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 236: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 237: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 238: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 239: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 240: <p>
1.435 matthieu 241: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
242: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
243: <p>
244:
1.434 bernd 245: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
246: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
247: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
248: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
249: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
250: <p>
251:
1.441 niallo 252: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
253: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
254: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
255: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
256: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
257: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
258: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
259: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
260: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
261: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
262: scripts.
263: <p>
264:
1.424 mbalmer 265: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
266: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
267: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 268: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
269: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
270: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 271: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 272: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 273: talks, including
274: <ul>
275: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
276: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
277: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
278: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
279: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
280: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 281: <p>
282:
283: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
284: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
285: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 286: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 287: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
288: <p>
289:
1.418 djm 290: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
291: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
292: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
293: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
294: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
295: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
296: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 297: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
298: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
299: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 300: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
301: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
302: <p>
303:
1.415 aanriot 304: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
305: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
306: 2005</a></strong>,
307: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
308: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
309: help of Thierry Thomas.
310: <p>
311:
1.420 deraadt 312: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
313: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
314: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
315: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
316: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
317: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
318: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
319: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
320: registration was mandatory.<br>
321: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 322: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 323: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
324: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
325: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 326: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 327: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
328: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
329: mechanism.
330: <p>
331:
1.414 bernd 332: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
333: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
334: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
335: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
336: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
340: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
341: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
342: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
343: <p>
344:
1.410 wvdputte 345: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
346: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
347: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 348: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
349: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 350: <p>
351:
352: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
353: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
354: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
355: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 356: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 357: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
358: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
359: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
360: installed on your computer.
361: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 362: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 363: <p>
364:
1.404 wvdputte 365: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
366: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 367: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 368: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
369: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 370: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 371: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
372: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
373: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
374: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
375: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
376: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
380: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
381: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
382: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
383: <p>
384:
1.403 henning 385: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
386: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 387: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 388: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
389: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
390: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
391: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
392: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
393: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
394: <p>
395:
1.388 tom 396: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
397: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
398: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 399: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 400: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
401: <p>
402:
1.385 mickey 403: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 404: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 405: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 406: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
407: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 408: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
409: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 410: and an excellent
411: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
412: If you want to see what happened previously, check
413: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
414: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
415: <p>
416:
1.382 pedro 417: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 418: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 419: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 420: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
421: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
422: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 423: <p>
424:
1.378 aanriot 425: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
426: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 427: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 428: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
429: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
430: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
431: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 432: <p>
433:
1.375 grunk 434: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
435: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 436: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 437: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
438: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
439: <p>
440:
1.374 grunk 441: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
442: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 443: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 444: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
445: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
446: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
447: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
448: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
449: <p>
450:
1.371 deraadt 451: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
452: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 453: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 454: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
455: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
456: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
457: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
458: He demonstrated how companies can easily
459: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
460: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
461: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
462: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
463: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
464: <p>
465:
1.366 martin 466: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
467: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
468: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
469: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
470: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
471: CDs and shirts.
472: <p>
473:
1.365 mcbride 474: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
475: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
476: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
477: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
478: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
479: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
480: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
481: <br>
482: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
483: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
484: <p>
485:
1.362 reyk 486: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
487: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
488: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
489: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
490: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
491: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
492: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
493: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
494: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
495: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
496: <p>
497:
1.358 mcbride 498: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
499: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
500: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
501: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
502: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
503: <p>
504:
1.357 henning 505: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
506: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
507: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
508: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
509: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
510: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
511: <p>
512:
1.384 tom 513: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 514: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 515: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 516: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
517: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
518: packages work in front of about 30 people.
519: <p>
520:
1.353 henning 521: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
522: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 523: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 524: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
525: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
526: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
527: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 528: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 529: <p>
530:
1.352 henning 531: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
532: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 533: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 534: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
535: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
536: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
537: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
538: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
539: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
540: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
541: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
542: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
543: available if you couldn't make it there.
544: <p>
545:
1.350 marius 546: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
547:
548: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 549: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 550: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
551: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
552: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
553: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
554: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 555: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 556: <p>
557:
1.345 henning 558: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
559: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 560: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 561: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
562: <p>
563:
1.344 martin 564: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
565: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 566: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 567: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
568: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
569: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
570: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
571: (in French) are available.
572: <p>
573:
1.337 deraadt 574: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
575: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 576: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 577: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
578: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 579: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 580: source firewalls.
581: <p>
582:
1.317 henning 583: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
584: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
585: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 586: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 587: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 588: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 589: <p>
590:
1.312 deraadt 591: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
592: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
593: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 594: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
595: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 596: <p>
597:
1.319 saad 598: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
599: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
600: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
601: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
602: <p>
603:
1.310 mickey 604: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 605: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 606: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 607: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 608: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
609: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 610: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 611: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 612: <p>
1.312 deraadt 613:
1.308 deraadt 614: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
615: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
616: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
617: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 618: talks. Topics included
619: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 620: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
621: OpenBGPD, and pf.
622: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 623: <p>
624:
1.304 saad 625: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
626: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
627: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
628: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
629: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 630: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 631: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 632: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
633: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 634: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 635: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
636: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
637: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 638: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 639: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
640: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
641: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
642: <p>
1.301 saad 643: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
644: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
645: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
646: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
647: <p>
648: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
649: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
650: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
651: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
652: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
653: <p>
1.293 saad 654: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
655: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
656: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
657: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
658: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
659: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 660: french translation team.<br>
661: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
662: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
663: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
664: available.<br>
665: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 666: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
667: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
668: <p>
1.296 mcbride 669: </ul>
1.293 saad 670:
1.296 mcbride 671: <h3>2004</h3>
672:
673: <ul>
1.287 henning 674: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
675: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 676: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 677: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
678: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
679: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 680: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 681: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
682: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
683: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
684: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
685: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
686: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 687: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 688: driver.
689: <p>
1.248 deraadt 690:
1.286 kevlo 691: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 692: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 693: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
694: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
695: <p>
696:
1.285 deraadt 697: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
698: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
699: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
700: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
701: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
702: <p>
703:
1.283 saad 704: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
705: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
706: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
707: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
708: meeting of the
709: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
710: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 711: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 712: <p>
713:
1.282 henning 714: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
715: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
716: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
717: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
718: two days, on bgpd
719: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
720: ntpd
721: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
722: and signal handlers
723: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
724: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
725: <p>
726:
1.275 deraadt 727: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
728: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
729: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
730: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
731: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
732: Room B-02 of the
733: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
734: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
735: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
736: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
737: The talk was also given the following day at the
738: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
739: <p>
740:
1.271 henning 741: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
742: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
743: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 744: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
745: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 746: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 747: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 748: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 749: <p>
750:
751: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
752: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
753: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 754: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
755: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 756: <p>
757:
1.276 deraadt 758: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 759: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
760: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
761: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
762: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 766: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
767: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 768: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 769: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 770: <p>
771:
772: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
773: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
774: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
775: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
776: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
777: <p>
778:
1.268 krw 779: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
780: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
781: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
782: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
783: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
784: <p>
785:
1.375 grunk 786: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 787: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
788: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
789: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
790: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
794: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 795: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 796: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
797: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
798: <p>
799:
1.265 wvdputte 800: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
801: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 802: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 803: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
804: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
805: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
806: event."
807: <br>
808: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
809: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
810: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
811: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
812: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
813: <br>
814: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
815: <p>
816:
1.262 henning 817: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
818: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 819: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 820: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
821: Henning's slides from his talks about
822: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
823: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
824: are available.
825: <p>
826:
1.261 deraadt 827: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 828: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 829: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
830: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
831: newly extended version of the
832: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
833: For more information, see this
834: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
835: ComputerWorld article</a>.
836: <p>
837:
838:
1.257 saad 839: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
840: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 841: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 842: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
843: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
847: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 848: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 849: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
850: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
851: <p>
852:
1.256 mickey 853: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 854: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 855: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
856: session.
857: <p>
858:
1.254 xsa 859: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 860: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 861: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
862: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
863: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
864: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
865: a basic talk about pf.
866: <p>
867:
1.248 deraadt 868: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 869: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 870: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
871: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 872: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
873: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
874: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 875: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
876: <p>
877:
1.247 canacar 878: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
879: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
880: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
881: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
882: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
883: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
884: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
885: projects were discussed.<br>
886: You can view the
1.281 canacar 887: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 888: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 889: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 890: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
891: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
892: <p>
893:
1.242 henning 894: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
895: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
896: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 897: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
898: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
899: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
900: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
901: and systrace
1.263 saad 902: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 903: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
904: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
905: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 906: <p>
907:
1.240 espie 908: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
909: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
910: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
911: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
912: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
913: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
914: <p>
915:
916: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
917: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
918: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 919: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 920: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
921: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
922: <p>
923: </ul>
924:
1.188 henning 925: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 926:
927: <ul>
1.232 jose 928: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
929: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
930: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
931: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
932: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 933: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 934: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 935: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 936: <p>
1.232 jose 937:
1.228 jose 938: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 939: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 940: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
941: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 942: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
943: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 944: with OpenBSD PF.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
948: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
949: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
950: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
951: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 952: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
953: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
954: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
955: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 956: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 957: slides in PDF format </a>
958: (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 959: <p>
960:
1.227 jose 961: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
962: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
963: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
964: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
965: <p>
966:
967: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
968: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 969: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 970: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 971: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 972: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
973: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 974: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 975: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 976: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 977: in Internet worm defenses.
978: <p>
979:
1.224 miod 980: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
981: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
982: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
983: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
984: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
985: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
986: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
987: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
988: OpenBSD.
989: <p>
990:
991: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
992: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
993: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
994: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
998: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
999: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1000: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1001: <p>
1002:
1.219 jose 1003: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1005: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1006: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1007: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1008: <p>
1009:
1.218 jose 1010: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1011: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1012: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1013: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1014: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1015: <p>
1016:
1.214 henning 1017: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1018: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1019: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1020: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1021: <p>
1022:
1.213 jose 1023: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1024: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1025: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1026: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1027: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1028: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.211 jose 1031: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1032: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1033: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1034: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1035: <p>
1036:
1037: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1038: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1039: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1040: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1041: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1042: <p>
1043:
1.209 wvdputte 1044: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1045: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1046: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1047: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1048: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1049:
1.202 jason 1050: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1051: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1052: Conference</a></strong>,
1053: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1054: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1055: <ul>
1.216 jose 1056: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1057: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1058: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1059: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1060: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1061: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1062: </ul>
1063: <p>
1064:
1.201 deraadt 1065: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1066: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1067: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1068: session.
1069: <p>
1070:
1.216 jose 1071: <li><strong>
1072: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1073: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1074: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1075: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.216 jose 1078: <li><strong>
1079: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1080: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1081: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1082: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1083: <p>
1084:
1.216 jose 1085: <li><strong>
1086: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1087: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1088: 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 1089: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1090: <p>
1091:
1.216 jose 1092: <li><strong>
1093: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1094: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1095: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1096: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1097: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1098: user groups.
1099: <p>
1100:
1.236 jose 1101: <li><strong>
1102: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1103: Group</a></strong>,
1104: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1105: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1106: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1107: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1108: <p>
1109:
1.216 jose 1110: <li><strong>
1111: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1112: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1113: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1114: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1115: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1116: <p>
1117:
1.216 jose 1118: <li><strong>
1119: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1120: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1121: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1122: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1123: <p>
1.236 jose 1124: </ul>
1.185 miod 1125:
1.161 millert 1126: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1127:
1128: <ul>
1129: <li><strong>
1130: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1131: Congress</a></strong>,
1132: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1133: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1134: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1135: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1136: <p>
1.177 jason 1137:
1.216 jose 1138: <li><strong>
1139: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1140: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1141: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1142: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1143: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1144: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1145: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1146: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1147: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1148: <p>
1.178 pb 1149:
1.216 jose 1150: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1151: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1152: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1153: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1154: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1155: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1156: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1157: <p>
1158:
1.216 jose 1159: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1160: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1161: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1162: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1163: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1164: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1165: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1166: <p>
1167:
1168: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1169: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1170: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1171: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1172: Niels Provos presented his
1173: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1174: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1175: <p>
1.172 miod 1176:
1.216 jose 1177: <li><strong>
1178: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1179: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1180: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1181: <p>
1182:
1.216 jose 1183: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1184: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1185: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1186: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1187: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1188: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1189: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1190: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1191: <p>
1.168 miod 1192:
1.216 jose 1193: <li><strong>
1194: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1195: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1196: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1197: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1198: are available.
1.161 millert 1199: <p>
1200:
1.216 jose 1201: <li><strong>
1202: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1203: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1204: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1205: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1206: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1207: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1208: <p>
1209:
1.216 jose 1210: <li><strong>
1211: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1212: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1213: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1214: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1215: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1216: <p>
1.236 jose 1217: </ul>
1.164 millert 1218:
1.152 jakob 1219: <h3>2001</h3>
1220:
1.236 jose 1221: <ul>
1.216 jose 1222: <li><strong>
1223: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1224: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1225: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1226: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1227: <p>
1228:
1.216 jose 1229: <li><strong>
1230: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1231: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1232: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1233: <p>
1234:
1.158 deraadt 1235: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1236: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1237: 2001</a></strong>,
1238: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1239: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1240: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1241: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1242: <p>
1243:
1.216 jose 1244: <li><strong>
1245: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1246: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1247: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1248: <p>
1249:
1.201 deraadt 1250: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1251: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1252: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1253: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1254:
1.150 wvdputte 1255: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1256: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1257: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1258: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1259: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1260: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1261: <p>
1.137 aaron 1262:
1263: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1264: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1265: Conference</a></strong>,
1266: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1267: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1268: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1269: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1270: <p>
1271:
1272: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1273: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1274: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1275: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1276: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1277: <p>
1278:
1279: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1280: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1281: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1282: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1283: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1284: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1285: <p>
1286:
1287: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1289: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1290: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1291: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1292: <p>
1293:
1294: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1295: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1296: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1297: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1298: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1299: security community.
1300: <p>
1301:
1302: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1303: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1304: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1305: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1306: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1307: <p>
1308:
1309: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1310: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1311: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1312: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1313: <p>
1.236 jose 1314: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1315:
1.132 louis 1316: <h3>2000</h3>
1317:
1.236 jose 1318: <ul>
1.132 louis 1319: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1320: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1321: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1322: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1323: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1324: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1325: <p>
1326:
1327: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1328: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1329: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1330: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1331: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1332: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1333: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1334: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1335: <p>
1336:
1337: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1338: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1339: 2000</a></strong>,
1340: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1341: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1342: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1343: <p>
1.4 millert 1344:
1.132 louis 1345: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1346: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1347: Summit</a></strong>,
1348: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1349: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1350: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1351: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1352:
1353: <ul>
1.236 jose 1354: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1355: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1356: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1357: </ul>
1.4 millert 1358: <p>
1.132 louis 1359:
1.7 deraadt 1360: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1361: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1362: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1363: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1364: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1365: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1366: mind (drinks afterwards).
1367: <p>
1368:
1.216 jose 1369: <li><strong>
1370: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1371: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1372: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1373: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1374: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1375:
1.132 louis 1376: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1377: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1378: Revolution</a></strong>,
1379: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1380: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1381: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1382: <p>
1383:
1.132 louis 1384: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1385: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1386: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1387: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1388: <ul>
1.236 jose 1389: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1390: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1391: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1392: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1393: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1394: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1395: <p>
1.132 louis 1396:
1.10 provos 1397: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1398: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1399: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1400: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1401: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1402: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1403: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1404: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1405: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1406: <br>
1407: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1408: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1409: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1410:
1.132 louis 1411: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1412: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1413: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1414: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1415: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1416: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1417: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1418: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1419: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1420: and spoke about
1421: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1422: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1423: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1424: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1425: <p>
1.132 louis 1426:
1.6 deraadt 1427: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1428: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1429: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1430: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1431: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1432: <br>
1433: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1434: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1435: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1436: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1437:
1.216 jose 1438: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1439: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1440: Conference.</a></strong>,
1441: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1442: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1443: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1444: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1445: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1446: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1447: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1448: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1449: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1450: <ul>
1451:
1452: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1453: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1454: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1455: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1456: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1457:
1458: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1459: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1460: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1461: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1462: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1463:
1.132 louis 1464: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1465: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1466: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1467: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1468: <p>
1469:
1.132 louis 1470: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1471: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1472: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1473: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1474: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1475: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1476: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1477: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1478:
1.132 louis 1479: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1480: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1481: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1482: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1483: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1484: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1485: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1486: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1487: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1488:
1.17 deraadt 1489: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1490: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1491: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1492: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1493: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1494: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1495: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1496: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1497: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1498:
1.23 niklas 1499: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1500: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1501: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1502: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1503: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1504: efforts.
1505: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1506: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1507: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1508: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1509: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1510: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1511:
1.132 louis 1512: <li><strong>
1513: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1514: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1515: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1516: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1517: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1518: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1519: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1520: <p>
1.23 niklas 1521:
1.31 deraadt 1522: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1523: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1524: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1525: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1526: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1527: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1528: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1529: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1530: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1531: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1532:
1.201 deraadt 1533: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1534: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1535: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1536: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1537: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1538: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1539: <p>
1.236 jose 1540: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1541:
1.132 louis 1542: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1543:
1.236 jose 1544: <ul>
1.216 jose 1545: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1546: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1547: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1548: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1549: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1550: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1551: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1552: <p>
1553:
1.216 jose 1554: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1555: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1556: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1557: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1558: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1559: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1560: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1561: There were many other OpenBSD
1562: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1563: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1564:
1565: <ul>
1566: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1567: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1568: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1569: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1570: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1571: </ul>
1572: <p>
1573:
1574: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1575: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1576: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1577: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1581: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1582: Software '99</a></strong>,
1583: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1584: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1585: <a
1.375 grunk 1586: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1587: <p>
1588:
1589: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1590: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1591: 1999</a></strong>,
1592: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1593: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1594: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1595: <p>
1596:
1.236 jose 1597: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1598: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1599: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1600: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1601: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1602: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1603: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1604: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1605: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1606: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1607: conference in Stockholm.
1608: <p>
1609:
1610: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1611: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1612: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1613: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1614: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1615: coordinated.
1616: <p>
1617:
1618: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1619: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1620: Security</a></strong>,
1621: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1622: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1623: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1624: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1625: significant security roles.
1626: <p>
1627:
1628: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1629: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1630: meeting</a></strong>,
1631: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1632: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1633: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1634: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1635: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1636: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1637: <p>
1.45 jason 1638:
1.132 louis 1639: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1640: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1641: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1642: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1643: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1644: <p>
1.132 louis 1645:
1.236 jose 1646: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1647: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1648: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1649: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1650: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1651: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1652: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1653: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1654: June.)
1.132 louis 1655: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1656: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1657: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1658:
1.375 grunk 1659: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1660: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1661: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1662: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1663: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1664: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1665: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1666: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1667: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1668: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1669: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1670: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1671: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1672: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1673: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1674: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1675: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1676: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1677: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1678: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1679: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1680: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1681: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1682: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1683: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1684: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1685: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1686: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1687:
1.51 deraadt 1688: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1689: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1690: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1691: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1692: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1693: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1694: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1695: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1696: <p>
1697:
1.53 jakob 1698: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1699: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1700: meeting</a></strong>,
1701: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1702: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1703: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1704: <p>
1705:
1.132 louis 1706: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1707: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1708: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1709: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1710: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1711: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1712: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1713: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1714: <p>
1.236 jose 1715: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1716:
1.132 louis 1717: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1718:
1.236 jose 1719: <ul>
1.132 louis 1720: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1721: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1722: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1723: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1724: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1725: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1726: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1727: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1728: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1729: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1730: <p>
1731:
1.236 jose 1732: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1733: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1734: Conference</a></strong>,
1735: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1736: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1737: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1738: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1739: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1740: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1741: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1742: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1743: <br>
1744: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1745: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1746: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1747: <p>
1748:
1.73 deraadt 1749: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1750: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1751: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1752: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1753: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1754: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1755: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1756: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1757: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1758:
1.236 jose 1759: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1760: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1761: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1762: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1763: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1764: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1765: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1766: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1767:
1.80 deraadt 1768: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1769: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1770: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1771: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1772: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1773: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1774: <p>
1775:
1.93 louis 1776: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1777: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1778: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1779: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1780: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1781: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1782: <p>
1783:
1.216 jose 1784: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1785: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1786: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1787: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1788: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1789: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1790: <p>
1791:
1.236 jose 1792: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1793: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1794: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1795: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1796: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1797: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1798: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1799: <br>
1800: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1801: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1802: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1803: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1804: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1805:
1.236 jose 1806: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1807: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1808: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1809: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1810: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1811: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1812: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1813: <p>
1814:
1.236 jose 1815: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1816: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1817: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1818: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1819: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1820: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1821: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1822: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1823: <br>
1824: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1825: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1826: <p>
1827:
1.105 wvdputte 1828: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1829: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1830: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1831: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1832: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1833: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1834: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1835: <br>
1.132 louis 1836: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1837: <p>
1.236 jose 1838: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1839:
1.132 louis 1840: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1841:
1.236 jose 1842: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1843: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1844: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1845: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1846: Niels held a
1847: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1848: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1849: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1850: <p>
1.132 louis 1851:
1.236 jose 1852: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1853: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1854: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1855: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1856: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1857: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1858:
1.236 jose 1859: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1860: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1861: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1862: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1863: <br>
1864: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1865: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1866: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1867: <p>
1868:
1.125 deraadt 1869: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1870: <a
1871: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1872: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1873: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1874: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1875: </ul>
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