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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.445 martin 41: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 42:
43: <ul>
1.346 marius 44:
1.483 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
46: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
47: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
1.484 mbalmer 48: A talk will be given by Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD
49: user, to present the overall system and its great features.
1.483 wvdputte 50: <p>
51:
1.461 reyk 52: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
53: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
54: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
55: David Gwynne will give a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
56: sensors in OpenBSD and Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest
1.462 reyk 57: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future, and
58: Peter Hansteen will give a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
59: will attend the conference as well, like the committee members
60: Bob Beck and Todd Miller.
1.461 reyk 61: <p>
62:
1.450 grunk 63: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
64: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
65: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 66: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
67: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
68: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 69: <p>
70:
1.446 wvdputte 71: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
72: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.477 martin 73: May 31 - June 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 74: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
75: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
79: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
80: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
81: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 82: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 83: <p>
1.487 ! bernd 84:
! 85: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
! 86: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
! 87: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
! 88: June 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
! 89: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
! 90: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
! 91: <p>
1.236 jose 92: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 93:
1.152 jakob 94: <hr>
95:
96: <h2>Past events:</h2>
97:
1.455 grunk 98: <h3>2006</h3>
99: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 100:
1.484 mbalmer 101: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
102: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
103: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
104: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
105: <ul>
106: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
107: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 108: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 109: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
110: distributions...
111: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
112: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 113: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 114: infrastructure.
115: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
116: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
117: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
118: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
119: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
120: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
121: </ul>
122: <br>
123: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 124: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 125: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
126: <br>
127: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
128: usual suspects.
129: <p>
130:
131: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
132: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
133: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
134: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
135: <p>
136:
1.486 mickey 137: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
138: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
139: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
140: Mickey gave a talk
141: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
142: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
143: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
144: <p>
145:
1.484 mbalmer 146: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
147: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
148: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
149: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
150: talk. There is a
151: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
152: <p>
153:
1.478 mbalmer 154: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
155: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
156: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
157: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
158: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
159: well received.
160: <br>
161: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
162: and we could draw a lot of attention.
163: <p>
164:
1.479 deraadt 165: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
166: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
167: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
168: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 169: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
170: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
171: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 172: only).
173: <p>
174:
1.475 deraadt 175: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
176: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
177: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
178: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
179: Jason Dixon presented
180: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
181: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
182: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
183: <br>
184: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
185: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
186: <p>
187:
188: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
189: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
190: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
191: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
192: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
193: <br>
194: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
195: on sale.
196: <p>
197:
1.469 tom 198: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
199: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
200: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
201: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
202: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
203: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
204: Peter N. M. Hansteen
205: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
206: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
207: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
208: drivers for OpenBSD".
209: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
210: <p>
211:
1.459 henning 212: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
213: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
214: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
215: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
216: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
217: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
218: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
219: <p>
220:
1.457 wvdputte 221: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
222: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
223: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
224: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 225: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 226: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
227: BSD dinner. More details and
228: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 229: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 230: <p>
231:
232: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
233: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
234: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
235: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
236: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
237: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
238: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
239: <p>
1.455 grunk 240:
1.456 henning 241: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
242: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
243: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
244: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
245: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
246: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
247: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
248: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
249: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
250: <p>
251:
1.455 grunk 252: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
253: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
254: </strong>,
255: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
256: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
257: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
258: <p>
259: </ul>
260:
1.296 mcbride 261: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 262:
263: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 264:
1.445 martin 265: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
266: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
267: Berlin</a></strong>,
268: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
269: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
270: <p>
271:
1.435 matthieu 272: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
273: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
274: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
275: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
276: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 277: event.
1.444 grunk 278: The program included a
279: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 280: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
281: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 282: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
283: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 284: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 285: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 286: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 287: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 288: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 289: <p>
1.435 matthieu 290: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
291: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
292: <p>
293:
1.434 bernd 294: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
295: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
296: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
297: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
298: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
299: <p>
300:
1.441 niallo 301: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
302: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
303: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
304: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
305: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
306: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
307: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
308: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
309: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
310: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
311: scripts.
312: <p>
313:
1.424 mbalmer 314: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
315: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
316: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 317: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
318: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
319: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 320: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 321: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 322: talks, including
323: <ul>
324: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
325: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
326: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
327: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
328: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
329: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 330: <p>
331:
332: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
333: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
334: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 335: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 336: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
337: <p>
338:
1.418 djm 339: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
340: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
341: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
342: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
343: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
344: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
345: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 346: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
347: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
348: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 349: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
350: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
351: <p>
352:
1.415 aanriot 353: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
354: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
355: 2005</a></strong>,
356: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
357: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
358: help of Thierry Thomas.
359: <p>
360:
1.420 deraadt 361: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
362: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
363: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
364: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
365: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
366: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
367: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
368: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
369: registration was mandatory.<br>
370: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 371: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 372: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
373: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
374: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 375: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 376: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
377: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
378: mechanism.
379: <p>
380:
1.414 bernd 381: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
382: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
383: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
384: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
385: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
389: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
390: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
391: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
392: <p>
393:
1.410 wvdputte 394: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
395: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
396: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 397: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
398: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 399: <p>
400:
401: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
402: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
403: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
404: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 405: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 406: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
407: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
408: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
409: installed on your computer.
410: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 411: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 412: <p>
413:
1.404 wvdputte 414: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
415: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 416: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 417: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
418: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 419: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 420: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
421: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
422: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
423: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
424: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
425: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
429: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
430: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
431: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
432: <p>
433:
1.403 henning 434: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
435: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 436: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 437: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
438: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
439: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
440: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
441: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
442: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
443: <p>
444:
1.388 tom 445: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
446: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
447: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 448: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 449: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
450: <p>
451:
1.385 mickey 452: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 453: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 454: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 455: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
456: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 457: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
458: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 459: and an excellent
460: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
461: If you want to see what happened previously, check
462: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
463: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
464: <p>
465:
1.382 pedro 466: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 467: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 468: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 469: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
470: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
471: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 472: <p>
473:
1.378 aanriot 474: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
475: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 476: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 477: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
478: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
479: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
480: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 481: <p>
482:
1.375 grunk 483: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
484: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 485: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 486: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
487: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
488: <p>
489:
1.374 grunk 490: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
491: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 492: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 493: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
494: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
495: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
496: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
497: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
498: <p>
499:
1.371 deraadt 500: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
501: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 502: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 503: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
504: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
505: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
506: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
507: He demonstrated how companies can easily
508: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
509: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
510: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
511: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
512: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
513: <p>
514:
1.366 martin 515: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
516: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
517: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
518: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
519: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
520: CDs and shirts.
521: <p>
522:
1.365 mcbride 523: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
524: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
525: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
526: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
527: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
528: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
529: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
530: <br>
531: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
532: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
533: <p>
534:
1.362 reyk 535: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
536: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
537: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
538: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
539: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
540: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
541: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
542: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
543: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
544: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
545: <p>
546:
1.358 mcbride 547: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
548: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
549: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
550: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
551: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
552: <p>
553:
1.357 henning 554: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
555: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
556: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
557: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
558: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
559: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
560: <p>
561:
1.384 tom 562: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 563: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 564: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 565: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
566: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
567: packages work in front of about 30 people.
568: <p>
569:
1.353 henning 570: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
571: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 572: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 573: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
574: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
575: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
576: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 577: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 578: <p>
579:
1.352 henning 580: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
581: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 582: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 583: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
584: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
585: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
586: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
587: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
588: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
589: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
590: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
591: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
592: available if you couldn't make it there.
593: <p>
594:
1.350 marius 595: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
596:
597: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 598: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 599: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
600: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
601: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
602: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
603: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 604: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 605: <p>
606:
1.345 henning 607: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
608: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 609: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 610: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
611: <p>
612:
1.344 martin 613: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
614: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 615: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 616: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
617: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
618: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
619: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
620: (in French) are available.
621: <p>
622:
1.337 deraadt 623: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
624: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 625: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 626: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
627: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 628: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 629: source firewalls.
630: <p>
631:
1.317 henning 632: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
633: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
634: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 635: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 636: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 637: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 638: <p>
639:
1.312 deraadt 640: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
641: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
642: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 643: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
644: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 645: <p>
646:
1.319 saad 647: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
648: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
649: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
650: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
651: <p>
652:
1.310 mickey 653: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 654: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 655: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 656: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 657: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
658: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 659: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 660: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 661: <p>
1.312 deraadt 662:
1.308 deraadt 663: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
664: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
665: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
666: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 667: talks. Topics included
668: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 669: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
670: OpenBGPD, and pf.
671: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 672: <p>
673:
1.304 saad 674: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
675: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
676: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
677: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
678: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 679: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 680: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 681: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
682: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 683: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 684: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
685: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
686: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 687: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 688: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
689: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
690: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
691: <p>
1.301 saad 692: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
693: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
694: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
695: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
696: <p>
697: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
698: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
699: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
700: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
701: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
702: <p>
1.293 saad 703: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
704: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
705: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
706: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
707: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
708: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 709: french translation team.<br>
710: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
711: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
712: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
713: available.<br>
714: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 715: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
716: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
717: <p>
1.296 mcbride 718: </ul>
1.293 saad 719:
1.296 mcbride 720: <h3>2004</h3>
721:
722: <ul>
1.287 henning 723: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
724: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 725: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 726: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
727: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
728: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 729: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 730: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
731: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
732: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
733: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
734: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
735: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 736: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 737: driver.
738: <p>
1.248 deraadt 739:
1.286 kevlo 740: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 741: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 742: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
743: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
744: <p>
745:
1.285 deraadt 746: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
747: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
748: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
749: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
750: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
751: <p>
752:
1.283 saad 753: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
754: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
755: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
756: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
757: meeting of the
758: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
759: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 760: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 761: <p>
762:
1.282 henning 763: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
764: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
765: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
766: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
767: two days, on bgpd
768: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
769: ntpd
770: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
771: and signal handlers
772: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
773: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
774: <p>
775:
1.275 deraadt 776: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
777: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
778: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
779: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
780: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
781: Room B-02 of the
782: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
783: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
784: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
785: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
786: The talk was also given the following day at the
787: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
788: <p>
789:
1.271 henning 790: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
791: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
792: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 793: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
794: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 795: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 796: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 797: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 798: <p>
799:
800: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
801: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
802: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 803: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
804: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 805: <p>
806:
1.276 deraadt 807: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 808: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
809: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
810: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
811: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 815: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
816: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 817: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 818: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 819: <p>
820:
821: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
822: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
823: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
824: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
825: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
826: <p>
827:
1.268 krw 828: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
829: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
830: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
831: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
832: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
833: <p>
834:
1.375 grunk 835: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 836: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
837: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
838: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
839: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
840: <p>
841:
842: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
843: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 844: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 845: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
846: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
847: <p>
848:
1.265 wvdputte 849: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
850: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 851: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 852: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
853: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
854: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
855: event."
856: <br>
857: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
858: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
859: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
860: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
861: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
862: <br>
863: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
864: <p>
865:
1.262 henning 866: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
867: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 868: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 869: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
870: Henning's slides from his talks about
871: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
872: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
873: are available.
874: <p>
875:
1.261 deraadt 876: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 877: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 878: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
879: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
880: newly extended version of the
881: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
882: For more information, see this
883: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
884: ComputerWorld article</a>.
885: <p>
886:
887:
1.257 saad 888: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
889: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 890: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 891: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
892: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
893: <p>
894:
895: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
896: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 897: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 898: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
899: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
900: <p>
901:
1.256 mickey 902: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 903: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 904: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
905: session.
906: <p>
907:
1.254 xsa 908: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 909: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 910: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
911: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
912: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
913: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
914: a basic talk about pf.
915: <p>
916:
1.248 deraadt 917: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 918: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 919: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
920: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 921: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
922: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
923: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 924: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
925: <p>
926:
1.247 canacar 927: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
928: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
929: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
930: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
931: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
932: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
933: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
934: projects were discussed.<br>
935: You can view the
1.281 canacar 936: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 937: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 938: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 939: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
940: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
941: <p>
942:
1.242 henning 943: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
944: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
945: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 946: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
947: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
948: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
949: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
950: and systrace
1.263 saad 951: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 952: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
953: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
954: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 955: <p>
956:
1.240 espie 957: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
958: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
959: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
960: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
961: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
962: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
963: <p>
964:
965: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
966: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
967: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 968: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 969: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
970: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
971: <p>
972: </ul>
973:
1.188 henning 974: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 975:
976: <ul>
1.232 jose 977: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
978: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
979: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
980: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
981: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 982: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 983: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 984: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 985: <p>
1.232 jose 986:
1.228 jose 987: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 988: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 989: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
990: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 991: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
992: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 993: with OpenBSD PF.
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
997: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
998: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
999: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1000: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1001: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1002: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1003: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1004: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1005: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1006: slides in PDF format </a>
1007: (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 1008: <p>
1009:
1.227 jose 1010: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1011: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1012: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1013: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1014: <p>
1015:
1016: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1017: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1018: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1019: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1020: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1021: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1022: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1023: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1024: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1025: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1026: in Internet worm defenses.
1027: <p>
1028:
1.224 miod 1029: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1030: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1031: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1032: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1033: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1034: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1035: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1036: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1037: OpenBSD.
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1042: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1043: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1047: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1048: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1049: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.219 jose 1052: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1053: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1054: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1055: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1056: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1057: <p>
1058:
1.218 jose 1059: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1061: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1062: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1063: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1064: <p>
1065:
1.214 henning 1066: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1067: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1068: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1069: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1070: <p>
1071:
1.213 jose 1072: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1073: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1074: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1075: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1076: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1077: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.211 jose 1080: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1082: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1083: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1087: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1088: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1089: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1090: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1091: <p>
1092:
1.209 wvdputte 1093: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1094: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1095: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1096: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1097: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1098:
1.202 jason 1099: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1100: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1101: Conference</a></strong>,
1102: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1103: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1104: <ul>
1.216 jose 1105: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1106: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1107: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1108: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1109: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1110: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1111: </ul>
1112: <p>
1113:
1.201 deraadt 1114: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1115: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1116: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1117: session.
1118: <p>
1119:
1.216 jose 1120: <li><strong>
1121: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1122: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1123: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1124: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1125: <p>
1126:
1.216 jose 1127: <li><strong>
1128: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1129: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1130: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1131: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1132: <p>
1133:
1.216 jose 1134: <li><strong>
1135: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1136: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1137: 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 1138: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1139: <p>
1140:
1.216 jose 1141: <li><strong>
1142: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1143: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1144: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1145: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1146: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1147: user groups.
1148: <p>
1149:
1.236 jose 1150: <li><strong>
1151: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1152: Group</a></strong>,
1153: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1154: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1155: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1156: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1157: <p>
1158:
1.216 jose 1159: <li><strong>
1160: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1161: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1162: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1163: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1164: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1165: <p>
1166:
1.216 jose 1167: <li><strong>
1168: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1169: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1170: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1171: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1172: <p>
1.236 jose 1173: </ul>
1.185 miod 1174:
1.161 millert 1175: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1176:
1177: <ul>
1178: <li><strong>
1179: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1180: Congress</a></strong>,
1181: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1182: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1183: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1184: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1185: <p>
1.177 jason 1186:
1.216 jose 1187: <li><strong>
1188: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1189: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1190: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1191: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1192: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1193: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1194: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1195: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1196: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1197: <p>
1.178 pb 1198:
1.216 jose 1199: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1200: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1201: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1202: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1203: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1204: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1205: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1206: <p>
1207:
1.216 jose 1208: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1209: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1210: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1211: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1212: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1213: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1214: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1215: <p>
1216:
1217: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1218: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1219: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1220: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1221: Niels Provos presented his
1222: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1223: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1224: <p>
1.172 miod 1225:
1.216 jose 1226: <li><strong>
1227: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1228: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1229: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1230: <p>
1231:
1.216 jose 1232: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1233: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1234: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1235: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1236: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1237: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1238: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1239: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1240: <p>
1.168 miod 1241:
1.216 jose 1242: <li><strong>
1243: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1244: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1245: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1246: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1247: are available.
1.161 millert 1248: <p>
1249:
1.216 jose 1250: <li><strong>
1251: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1252: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1253: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1254: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1255: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1256: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1257: <p>
1258:
1.216 jose 1259: <li><strong>
1260: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1261: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1262: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1263: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1264: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1265: <p>
1.236 jose 1266: </ul>
1.164 millert 1267:
1.152 jakob 1268: <h3>2001</h3>
1269:
1.236 jose 1270: <ul>
1.216 jose 1271: <li><strong>
1272: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1273: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1274: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1275: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1276: <p>
1277:
1.216 jose 1278: <li><strong>
1279: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1280: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1281: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1282: <p>
1283:
1.158 deraadt 1284: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1285: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1286: 2001</a></strong>,
1287: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1288: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1289: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1290: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1291: <p>
1292:
1.216 jose 1293: <li><strong>
1294: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1295: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1296: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1297: <p>
1298:
1.201 deraadt 1299: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1300: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1301: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1302: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1303:
1.150 wvdputte 1304: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1305: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1306: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1307: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1308: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1309: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1310: <p>
1.137 aaron 1311:
1312: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1313: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1314: Conference</a></strong>,
1315: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1316: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1317: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1318: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1322: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1323: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1324: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1325: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1326: <p>
1327:
1328: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1329: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1330: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1331: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1332: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1333: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1334: <p>
1335:
1336: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1337: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1338: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1339: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1340: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1341: <p>
1342:
1343: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1344: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1345: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1346: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1347: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1348: security community.
1349: <p>
1350:
1351: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1352: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1353: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1354: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1355: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1356: <p>
1357:
1358: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1359: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1360: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1361: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1362: <p>
1.236 jose 1363: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1364:
1.132 louis 1365: <h3>2000</h3>
1366:
1.236 jose 1367: <ul>
1.132 louis 1368: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1369: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1370: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1371: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1372: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1373: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1374: <p>
1375:
1376: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1377: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1378: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1379: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1380: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1381: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1382: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1383: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1384: <p>
1385:
1386: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1387: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1388: 2000</a></strong>,
1389: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1390: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1391: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1392: <p>
1.4 millert 1393:
1.132 louis 1394: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1395: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1396: Summit</a></strong>,
1397: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1398: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1399: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1400: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1401:
1402: <ul>
1.236 jose 1403: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1404: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1405: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1406: </ul>
1.4 millert 1407: <p>
1.132 louis 1408:
1.7 deraadt 1409: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1410: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1411: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1412: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1413: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1414: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1415: mind (drinks afterwards).
1416: <p>
1417:
1.216 jose 1418: <li><strong>
1419: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1420: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1421: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1422: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1423: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1424:
1.132 louis 1425: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1426: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1427: Revolution</a></strong>,
1428: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1429: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1430: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1431: <p>
1432:
1.132 louis 1433: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1434: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1435: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1436: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1437: <ul>
1.236 jose 1438: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1439: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1440: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1441: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1442: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1443: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1444: <p>
1.132 louis 1445:
1.10 provos 1446: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1447: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1448: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1449: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1450: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1451: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1452: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1453: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1454: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1455: <br>
1456: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1457: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1458: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1459:
1.132 louis 1460: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1461: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1462: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1463: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1464: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1465: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1466: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1467: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1468: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1469: and spoke about
1470: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1471: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1472: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1473: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1474: <p>
1.132 louis 1475:
1.6 deraadt 1476: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1477: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1478: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1479: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1480: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1481: <br>
1482: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1483: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1484: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1485: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1486:
1.216 jose 1487: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1488: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1489: Conference.</a></strong>,
1490: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1491: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1492: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1493: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1494: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1495: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1496: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1497: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1498: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1499: <ul>
1500:
1501: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1502: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1503: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1504: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1505: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1506:
1507: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1508: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1509: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1510: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1511: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1512:
1.132 louis 1513: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1514: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1515: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1516: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1517: <p>
1518:
1.132 louis 1519: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1520: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1521: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1522: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1523: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1524: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1525: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1526: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1527:
1.132 louis 1528: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1529: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1530: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1531: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1532: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1533: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1534: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1535: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1536: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1537:
1.17 deraadt 1538: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1539: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1540: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1541: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1542: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1543: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1544: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1545: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1546: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1547:
1.23 niklas 1548: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1549: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1550: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1551: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1552: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1553: efforts.
1554: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1555: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1556: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1557: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1558: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1559: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1560:
1.132 louis 1561: <li><strong>
1562: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1563: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1564: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1565: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1566: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1567: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1568: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1569: <p>
1.23 niklas 1570:
1.31 deraadt 1571: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1572: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1573: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1574: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1575: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1576: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1577: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1578: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1579: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1580: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1581:
1.201 deraadt 1582: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1583: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1584: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1585: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1586: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1587: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1588: <p>
1.236 jose 1589: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1590:
1.132 louis 1591: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1592:
1.236 jose 1593: <ul>
1.216 jose 1594: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1595: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1596: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1597: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1598: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1599: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1600: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1601: <p>
1602:
1.216 jose 1603: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1604: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1605: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1606: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1607: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1608: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1609: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1610: There were many other OpenBSD
1611: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1612: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1613:
1614: <ul>
1615: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1616: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1617: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1618: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1619: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1620: </ul>
1621: <p>
1622:
1623: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1624: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1625: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1626: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1627: <p>
1628:
1629: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1630: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1631: Software '99</a></strong>,
1632: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1633: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1634: <a
1.375 grunk 1635: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1636: <p>
1637:
1638: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1640: 1999</a></strong>,
1641: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1642: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1643: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1644: <p>
1645:
1.236 jose 1646: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1647: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1648: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1649: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1650: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1651: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1652: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1653: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1654: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1655: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1656: conference in Stockholm.
1657: <p>
1658:
1659: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1660: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1661: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1662: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1663: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1664: coordinated.
1665: <p>
1666:
1667: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1668: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1669: Security</a></strong>,
1670: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1671: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1672: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1673: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1674: significant security roles.
1675: <p>
1676:
1677: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1678: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1679: meeting</a></strong>,
1680: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1681: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1682: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1683: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1684: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1685: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1686: <p>
1.45 jason 1687:
1.132 louis 1688: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1689: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1690: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1691: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1692: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1693: <p>
1.132 louis 1694:
1.236 jose 1695: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1696: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1697: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1698: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1699: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1700: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1701: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1702: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1703: June.)
1.132 louis 1704: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1705: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1706: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1707:
1.375 grunk 1708: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1709: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1710: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1711: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1712: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1713: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1714: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1715: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1716: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1717: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1718: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1719: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1720: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1721: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1722: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1723: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1724: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1725: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1726: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1727: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1728: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1729: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1730: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1731: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1732: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1733: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1734: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1735: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1736:
1.51 deraadt 1737: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1738: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1739: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1740: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1741: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1742: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1743: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1744: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1745: <p>
1746:
1.53 jakob 1747: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1748: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1749: meeting</a></strong>,
1750: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1751: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1752: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1753: <p>
1754:
1.132 louis 1755: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1756: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1757: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1758: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1759: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1760: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1761: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1762: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1763: <p>
1.236 jose 1764: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1765:
1.132 louis 1766: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1767:
1.236 jose 1768: <ul>
1.132 louis 1769: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1770: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1771: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1772: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1773: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1774: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1775: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1776: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1777: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1778: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1779: <p>
1780:
1.236 jose 1781: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1782: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1783: Conference</a></strong>,
1784: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1785: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1786: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1787: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1788: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1789: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1790: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1791: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1792: <br>
1793: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1794: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1795: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1796: <p>
1797:
1.73 deraadt 1798: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1799: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1800: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1801: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1802: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1803: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1804: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1805: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1806: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1807:
1.236 jose 1808: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1809: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1810: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1811: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1812: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1813: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1814: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1815: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1816:
1.80 deraadt 1817: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1818: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1819: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1820: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1821: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1822: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1823: <p>
1824:
1.93 louis 1825: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1826: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1827: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1828: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1829: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1830: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1831: <p>
1832:
1.216 jose 1833: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1834: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1835: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1836: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1837: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1838: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1839: <p>
1840:
1.236 jose 1841: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1842: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1843: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1844: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1845: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1846: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1847: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1848: <br>
1849: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1850: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1851: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1852: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1853: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1854:
1.236 jose 1855: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1856: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1857: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1858: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1859: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1860: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1861: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1862: <p>
1863:
1.236 jose 1864: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1865: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1866: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1867: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1868: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1869: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1870: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1871: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1872: <br>
1873: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1874: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1875: <p>
1876:
1.105 wvdputte 1877: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1878: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1879: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1880: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1881: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1882: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1883: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1884: <br>
1.132 louis 1885: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1886: <p>
1.236 jose 1887: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1888:
1.132 louis 1889: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1890:
1.236 jose 1891: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1892: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1893: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1894: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1895: Niels held a
1896: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1897: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1898: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1899: <p>
1.132 louis 1900:
1.236 jose 1901: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1902: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1903: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1904: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1905: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1906: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1907:
1.236 jose 1908: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1909: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1910: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1911: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1912: <br>
1913: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1914: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1915: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1916: <p>
1917:
1.125 deraadt 1918: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1919: <a
1920: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1921: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1922: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1923: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1924: </ul>
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