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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:
1.461 reyk 45: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
46: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
47: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
48: David Gwynne will give a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
1.488 dlg 49: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
50: and Reyk Flöter will talk about the latest
1.462 reyk 51: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future, and
52: Peter Hansteen will give a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
53: will attend the conference as well, like the committee members
54: Bob Beck and Todd Miller.
1.461 reyk 55: <p>
56:
1.450 grunk 57: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
58: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
59: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
1.451 grunk 60: Peter N. M. Hansteen will give a
61: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
62: PF tutorial</a>.
1.450 grunk 63: <p>
64:
1.446 wvdputte 65: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
66: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.477 martin 67: May 31 - June 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 68: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
69: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
73: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
74: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
75: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.450 grunk 76: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
1.446 wvdputte 77: <p>
1.487 bernd 78:
79: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
80: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
81: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
82: June 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
83: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
84: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
85: <p>
1.236 jose 86: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 87:
1.152 jakob 88: <hr>
89:
90: <h2>Past events:</h2>
91:
1.455 grunk 92: <h3>2006</h3>
93: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 94:
1.489 ! bernd 95: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
! 96: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
! 97: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
! 98: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
! 99: the overall system and its great features.
! 100: <p>
! 101:
1.484 mbalmer 102: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
103: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
104: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
105: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
106: <ul>
107: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
108: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 109: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 110: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
111: distributions...
112: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
113: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 114: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 115: infrastructure.
116: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
117: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
118: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
119: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
120: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
121: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
122: </ul>
123: <br>
124: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 125: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 126: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
127: <br>
128: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
129: usual suspects.
130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
133: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
134: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
135: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
136: <p>
137:
1.486 mickey 138: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
139: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
140: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
141: Mickey gave a talk
142: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
143: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
144: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
145: <p>
146:
1.484 mbalmer 147: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
148: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
149: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
150: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
151: talk. There is a
152: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
153: <p>
154:
1.478 mbalmer 155: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
156: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
157: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
158: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
159: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
160: well received.
161: <br>
162: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
163: and we could draw a lot of attention.
164: <p>
165:
1.479 deraadt 166: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
167: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
168: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
169: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 170: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
171: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
172: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 173: only).
174: <p>
175:
1.475 deraadt 176: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
178: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
179: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
180: Jason Dixon presented
181: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
182: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
183: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
184: <br>
185: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
186: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
190: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
191: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
192: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
193: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
194: <br>
195: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
196: on sale.
197: <p>
198:
1.469 tom 199: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
200: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
201: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
202: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
203: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
204: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
205: Peter N. M. Hansteen
206: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
207: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
208: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
209: drivers for OpenBSD".
210: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
211: <p>
212:
1.459 henning 213: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
214: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
215: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
216: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
217: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
218: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
219: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
220: <p>
221:
1.457 wvdputte 222: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
223: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
224: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
225: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 226: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 227: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
228: BSD dinner. More details and
229: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 230: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 231: <p>
232:
233: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
234: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
235: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
236: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
237: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
238: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
239: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
240: <p>
1.455 grunk 241:
1.456 henning 242: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
243: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
244: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
245: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
246: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
247: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
248: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
249: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
250: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
251: <p>
252:
1.455 grunk 253: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
254: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
255: </strong>,
256: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
257: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
258: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
259: <p>
260: </ul>
261:
1.296 mcbride 262: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 263:
264: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 265:
1.445 martin 266: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
267: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
268: Berlin</a></strong>,
269: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
270: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
271: <p>
272:
1.435 matthieu 273: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
274: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
275: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
276: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
277: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 278: event.
1.444 grunk 279: The program included a
280: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 281: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
282: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 283: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
284: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 285: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 286: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 287: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 288: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 289: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 290: <p>
1.435 matthieu 291: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
292: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
293: <p>
294:
1.434 bernd 295: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
296: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
297: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
298: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
299: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
300: <p>
301:
1.441 niallo 302: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
303: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
304: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
305: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
306: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
307: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
308: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
309: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
310: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
311: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
312: scripts.
313: <p>
314:
1.424 mbalmer 315: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
316: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
317: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 318: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
319: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
320: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 321: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 322: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 323: talks, including
324: <ul>
325: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
326: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
327: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
328: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
329: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
330: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 331: <p>
332:
333: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
334: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
335: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 336: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 337: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
338: <p>
339:
1.418 djm 340: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
341: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
342: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
343: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
344: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
345: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
346: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 347: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
348: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
349: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 350: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
351: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
352: <p>
353:
1.415 aanriot 354: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
355: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
356: 2005</a></strong>,
357: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
358: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
359: help of Thierry Thomas.
360: <p>
361:
1.420 deraadt 362: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
363: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
364: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
365: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
366: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
367: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
368: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
369: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
370: registration was mandatory.<br>
371: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 372: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 373: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
374: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
375: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 376: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 377: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
378: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
379: mechanism.
380: <p>
381:
1.414 bernd 382: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
383: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
384: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
385: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
386: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
387: <p>
388:
389: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
390: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
391: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
392: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
393: <p>
394:
1.410 wvdputte 395: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
396: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
397: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 398: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
399: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 400: <p>
401:
402: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
403: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
404: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
405: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 406: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 407: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
408: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
409: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
410: installed on your computer.
411: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 412: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 413: <p>
414:
1.404 wvdputte 415: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
416: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 417: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 418: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
419: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 420: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 421: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
422: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
423: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
424: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
425: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
426: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
427: <p>
428:
429: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
430: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
431: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
432: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
433: <p>
434:
1.403 henning 435: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
436: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 437: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 438: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
439: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
440: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
441: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
442: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
443: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
444: <p>
445:
1.388 tom 446: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
447: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
448: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 449: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 450: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
451: <p>
452:
1.385 mickey 453: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 454: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 455: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 456: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
457: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 458: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
459: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 460: and an excellent
461: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
462: If you want to see what happened previously, check
463: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
464: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
465: <p>
466:
1.382 pedro 467: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 468: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 469: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 470: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
471: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
472: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 473: <p>
474:
1.378 aanriot 475: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
476: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 477: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 478: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
479: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
480: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
481: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 482: <p>
483:
1.375 grunk 484: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
485: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 486: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 487: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
488: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
489: <p>
490:
1.374 grunk 491: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
492: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 493: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 494: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
495: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
496: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
497: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
498: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
499: <p>
500:
1.371 deraadt 501: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
502: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 503: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 504: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
505: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
506: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
507: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
508: He demonstrated how companies can easily
509: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
510: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
511: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
512: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
513: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
514: <p>
515:
1.366 martin 516: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
517: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
518: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
519: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
520: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
521: CDs and shirts.
522: <p>
523:
1.365 mcbride 524: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
525: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
526: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
527: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
528: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
529: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
530: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
531: <br>
532: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
533: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
534: <p>
535:
1.362 reyk 536: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
537: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
538: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
539: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
540: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
541: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
542: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
543: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
544: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
545: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
546: <p>
547:
1.358 mcbride 548: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
549: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
550: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
551: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
552: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
553: <p>
554:
1.357 henning 555: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
556: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
557: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
558: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
559: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
560: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
561: <p>
562:
1.384 tom 563: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 564: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 565: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 566: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
567: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
568: packages work in front of about 30 people.
569: <p>
570:
1.353 henning 571: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
572: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 573: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 574: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
575: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
576: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
577: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 578: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 579: <p>
580:
1.352 henning 581: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
582: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 583: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 584: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
585: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
586: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
587: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
588: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
589: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
590: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
591: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
592: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
593: available if you couldn't make it there.
594: <p>
595:
1.350 marius 596: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
597:
598: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 599: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 600: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
601: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
602: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
603: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
604: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 605: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 606: <p>
607:
1.345 henning 608: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
609: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 610: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 611: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
612: <p>
613:
1.344 martin 614: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
615: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 616: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 617: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
618: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
619: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
620: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
621: (in French) are available.
622: <p>
623:
1.337 deraadt 624: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
625: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 626: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 627: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
628: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 629: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 630: source firewalls.
631: <p>
632:
1.317 henning 633: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
634: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
635: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 636: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 637: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 638: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 639: <p>
640:
1.312 deraadt 641: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
642: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
643: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 644: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
645: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 646: <p>
647:
1.319 saad 648: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
649: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
650: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
651: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
652: <p>
653:
1.310 mickey 654: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 655: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 656: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 657: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 658: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
659: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 660: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 661: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 662: <p>
1.312 deraadt 663:
1.308 deraadt 664: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
665: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
666: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
667: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 668: talks. Topics included
669: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 670: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
671: OpenBGPD, and pf.
672: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 673: <p>
674:
1.304 saad 675: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
676: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
677: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
678: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
679: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 680: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 681: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 682: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
683: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 684: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 685: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
686: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
687: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 688: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 689: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
690: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
691: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
692: <p>
1.301 saad 693: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
694: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
695: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
696: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
697: <p>
698: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
699: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
700: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
701: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
702: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
703: <p>
1.293 saad 704: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
705: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
706: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
707: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
708: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
709: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 710: french translation team.<br>
711: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
712: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
713: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
714: available.<br>
715: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 716: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
717: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
718: <p>
1.296 mcbride 719: </ul>
1.293 saad 720:
1.296 mcbride 721: <h3>2004</h3>
722:
723: <ul>
1.287 henning 724: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
725: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 726: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 727: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
728: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
729: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 730: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 731: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
732: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
733: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
734: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
735: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
736: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 737: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 738: driver.
739: <p>
1.248 deraadt 740:
1.286 kevlo 741: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 742: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 743: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
744: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
745: <p>
746:
1.285 deraadt 747: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
748: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
749: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
750: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
751: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
752: <p>
753:
1.283 saad 754: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
755: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
756: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
757: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
758: meeting of the
759: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
760: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 761: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 762: <p>
763:
1.282 henning 764: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
765: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
766: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
767: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
768: two days, on bgpd
769: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
770: ntpd
771: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
772: and signal handlers
773: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
774: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
775: <p>
776:
1.275 deraadt 777: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
778: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
779: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
780: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
781: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
782: Room B-02 of the
783: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
784: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
785: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
786: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
787: The talk was also given the following day at the
788: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
789: <p>
790:
1.271 henning 791: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
792: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
793: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 794: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
795: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 796: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 797: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 798: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 799: <p>
800:
801: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
802: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
803: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 804: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
805: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 806: <p>
807:
1.276 deraadt 808: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 809: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
810: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
811: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
812: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 816: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
817: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 818: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 819: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 820: <p>
821:
822: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
823: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
824: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
825: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
826: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
827: <p>
828:
1.268 krw 829: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
830: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
831: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
832: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
833: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
834: <p>
835:
1.375 grunk 836: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 837: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
838: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
839: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
840: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
844: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 845: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 846: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
847: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
848: <p>
849:
1.265 wvdputte 850: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
851: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 852: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 853: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
854: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
855: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
856: event."
857: <br>
858: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
859: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
860: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
861: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
862: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
863: <br>
864: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
865: <p>
866:
1.262 henning 867: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
868: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 869: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 870: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
871: Henning's slides from his talks about
872: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
873: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
874: are available.
875: <p>
876:
1.261 deraadt 877: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 878: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 879: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
880: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
881: newly extended version of the
882: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
883: For more information, see this
884: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
885: ComputerWorld article</a>.
886: <p>
887:
888:
1.257 saad 889: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
890: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 891: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 892: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
893: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
894: <p>
895:
896: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
897: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 898: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 899: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
900: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
901: <p>
902:
1.256 mickey 903: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 904: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 905: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
906: session.
907: <p>
908:
1.254 xsa 909: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 910: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 911: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
912: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
913: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
914: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
915: a basic talk about pf.
916: <p>
917:
1.248 deraadt 918: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 919: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 920: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
921: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 922: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
923: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
924: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 925: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
926: <p>
927:
1.247 canacar 928: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
929: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
930: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
931: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
932: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
933: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
934: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
935: projects were discussed.<br>
936: You can view the
1.281 canacar 937: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 938: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 939: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 940: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
941: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
942: <p>
943:
1.242 henning 944: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
945: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
946: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 947: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
948: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
949: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
950: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
951: and systrace
1.263 saad 952: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 953: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
954: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
955: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 956: <p>
957:
1.240 espie 958: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
959: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
960: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
961: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
962: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
963: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
967: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
968: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 969: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 970: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
971: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
972: <p>
973: </ul>
974:
1.188 henning 975: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 976:
977: <ul>
1.232 jose 978: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
979: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
980: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
981: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
982: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 983: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 984: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 985: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 986: <p>
1.232 jose 987:
1.228 jose 988: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 989: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 990: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
991: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 992: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
993: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 994: with OpenBSD PF.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
998: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
999: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1000: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1001: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1002: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1003: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1004: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1005: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1006: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1007: slides in PDF format </a>
1008: (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 1009: <p>
1010:
1.227 jose 1011: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1012: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1013: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1014: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1018: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1019: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1020: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1021: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1022: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1023: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1024: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1025: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1026: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1027: in Internet worm defenses.
1028: <p>
1029:
1.224 miod 1030: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1031: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1032: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1033: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1034: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1035: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1036: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1037: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1038: OpenBSD.
1039: <p>
1040:
1041: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1042: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1043: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1044: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1048: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1049: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1050: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1051: <p>
1052:
1.219 jose 1053: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1054: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1055: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1056: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1057: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1058: <p>
1059:
1.218 jose 1060: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1061: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1062: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1063: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1064: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1065: <p>
1066:
1.214 henning 1067: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1068: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1069: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1070: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1071: <p>
1072:
1.213 jose 1073: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1074: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1075: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1076: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1077: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1078: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.211 jose 1081: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1082: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1083: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1084: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1088: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1089: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1090: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1091: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1092: <p>
1093:
1.209 wvdputte 1094: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1095: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1096: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1097: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1098: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1099:
1.202 jason 1100: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1101: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1102: Conference</a></strong>,
1103: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1104: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1105: <ul>
1.216 jose 1106: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1107: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1108: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1109: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1110: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1111: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1112: </ul>
1113: <p>
1114:
1.201 deraadt 1115: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1116: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1117: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1118: session.
1119: <p>
1120:
1.216 jose 1121: <li><strong>
1122: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1123: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1124: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1125: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1126: <p>
1127:
1.216 jose 1128: <li><strong>
1129: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1130: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1131: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1132: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1133: <p>
1134:
1.216 jose 1135: <li><strong>
1136: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1137: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1138: 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 1139: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1140: <p>
1141:
1.216 jose 1142: <li><strong>
1143: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1144: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1145: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1146: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1147: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1148: user groups.
1149: <p>
1150:
1.236 jose 1151: <li><strong>
1152: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1153: Group</a></strong>,
1154: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1155: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1156: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1157: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1158: <p>
1159:
1.216 jose 1160: <li><strong>
1161: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1162: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1163: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1164: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1165: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1166: <p>
1167:
1.216 jose 1168: <li><strong>
1169: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1170: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1171: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1172: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1173: <p>
1.236 jose 1174: </ul>
1.185 miod 1175:
1.161 millert 1176: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1177:
1178: <ul>
1179: <li><strong>
1180: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1181: Congress</a></strong>,
1182: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1183: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1184: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1185: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1186: <p>
1.177 jason 1187:
1.216 jose 1188: <li><strong>
1189: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1190: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1191: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1192: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1193: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1194: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1195: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1196: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1197: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1198: <p>
1.178 pb 1199:
1.216 jose 1200: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1201: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1202: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1203: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1204: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1205: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1206: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1207: <p>
1208:
1.216 jose 1209: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1210: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1211: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1212: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1213: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1214: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1215: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1216: <p>
1217:
1218: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1219: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1220: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1221: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1222: Niels Provos presented his
1223: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1224: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1225: <p>
1.172 miod 1226:
1.216 jose 1227: <li><strong>
1228: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1229: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1230: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1231: <p>
1232:
1.216 jose 1233: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1234: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1235: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1236: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1237: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1238: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1239: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1240: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1241: <p>
1.168 miod 1242:
1.216 jose 1243: <li><strong>
1244: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1245: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1246: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1247: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1248: are available.
1.161 millert 1249: <p>
1250:
1.216 jose 1251: <li><strong>
1252: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1253: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1254: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1255: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1256: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1257: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1258: <p>
1259:
1.216 jose 1260: <li><strong>
1261: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1262: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1263: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1264: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1265: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1266: <p>
1.236 jose 1267: </ul>
1.164 millert 1268:
1.152 jakob 1269: <h3>2001</h3>
1270:
1.236 jose 1271: <ul>
1.216 jose 1272: <li><strong>
1273: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1274: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1275: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1276: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1277: <p>
1278:
1.216 jose 1279: <li><strong>
1280: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1281: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1282: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1283: <p>
1284:
1.158 deraadt 1285: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1286: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1287: 2001</a></strong>,
1288: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1289: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1290: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1291: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1292: <p>
1293:
1.216 jose 1294: <li><strong>
1295: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1296: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1297: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1298: <p>
1299:
1.201 deraadt 1300: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1301: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1302: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1303: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1304:
1.150 wvdputte 1305: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1306: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1307: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1308: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1309: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1310: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1311: <p>
1.137 aaron 1312:
1313: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1314: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1315: Conference</a></strong>,
1316: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1317: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1318: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1319: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1320: <p>
1321:
1322: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1323: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1324: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1325: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1326: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1327: <p>
1328:
1329: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1330: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1331: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1332: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1333: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1334: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1335: <p>
1336:
1337: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1338: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1339: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1340: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1341: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1342: <p>
1343:
1344: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1345: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1346: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1347: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1348: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1349: security community.
1350: <p>
1351:
1352: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1353: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1354: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1355: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1356: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1357: <p>
1358:
1359: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1360: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1361: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1362: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1363: <p>
1.236 jose 1364: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1365:
1.132 louis 1366: <h3>2000</h3>
1367:
1.236 jose 1368: <ul>
1.132 louis 1369: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1370: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1371: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1372: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1373: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1374: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1378: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1379: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1380: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1381: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1382: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1383: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1384: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1388: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1389: 2000</a></strong>,
1390: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1391: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1392: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1393: <p>
1.4 millert 1394:
1.132 louis 1395: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1396: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1397: Summit</a></strong>,
1398: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1399: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1400: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1401: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1402:
1403: <ul>
1.236 jose 1404: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1405: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1406: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1407: </ul>
1.4 millert 1408: <p>
1.132 louis 1409:
1.7 deraadt 1410: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1411: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1412: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1413: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1414: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1415: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1416: mind (drinks afterwards).
1417: <p>
1418:
1.216 jose 1419: <li><strong>
1420: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1421: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1422: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1423: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1424: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1425:
1.132 louis 1426: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1427: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1428: Revolution</a></strong>,
1429: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1430: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1431: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1432: <p>
1433:
1.132 louis 1434: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1435: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1436: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1437: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1438: <ul>
1.236 jose 1439: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1440: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1441: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1442: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1443: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1444: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1445: <p>
1.132 louis 1446:
1.10 provos 1447: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1448: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1449: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1450: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1451: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1452: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1453: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1454: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1455: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1456: <br>
1457: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1458: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1459: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1460:
1.132 louis 1461: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1462: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1463: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1464: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1465: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1466: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1467: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1468: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1469: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1470: and spoke about
1471: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1472: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1473: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1474: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1475: <p>
1.132 louis 1476:
1.6 deraadt 1477: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1478: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1479: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1480: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1481: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1482: <br>
1483: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1484: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1485: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1486: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1487:
1.216 jose 1488: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1489: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1490: Conference.</a></strong>,
1491: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1492: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1493: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1494: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1495: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1496: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1497: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1498: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1499: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1500: <ul>
1501:
1502: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1503: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1504: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1505: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1506: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1507:
1508: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1509: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1510: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1511: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1512: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1513:
1.132 louis 1514: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1515: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1516: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1517: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1518: <p>
1519:
1.132 louis 1520: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1521: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1522: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1523: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1524: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1525: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1526: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1527: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1528:
1.132 louis 1529: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1530: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1531: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1532: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1533: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1534: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1535: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1536: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1537: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1538:
1.17 deraadt 1539: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1540: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1541: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1542: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1543: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1544: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1545: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1546: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1547: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1548:
1.23 niklas 1549: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1550: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1551: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1552: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1553: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1554: efforts.
1555: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1556: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1557: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1558: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1559: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1560: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1561:
1.132 louis 1562: <li><strong>
1563: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1564: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1565: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1566: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1567: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1568: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1569: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1570: <p>
1.23 niklas 1571:
1.31 deraadt 1572: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1573: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1574: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1575: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1576: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1577: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1578: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1579: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1580: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1581: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1582:
1.201 deraadt 1583: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1584: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1585: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1586: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1587: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1588: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1589: <p>
1.236 jose 1590: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1591:
1.132 louis 1592: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1593:
1.236 jose 1594: <ul>
1.216 jose 1595: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1596: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1597: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1598: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1599: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1600: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1601: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1602: <p>
1603:
1.216 jose 1604: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1605: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1606: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1607: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1608: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1609: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1610: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1611: There were many other OpenBSD
1612: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1613: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1614:
1615: <ul>
1616: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1617: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1618: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1619: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1620: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1621: </ul>
1622: <p>
1623:
1624: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1625: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1626: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1627: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1628: <p>
1629:
1630: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1631: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1632: Software '99</a></strong>,
1633: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1634: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1635: <a
1.375 grunk 1636: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1637: <p>
1638:
1639: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1640: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1641: 1999</a></strong>,
1642: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1643: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1644: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1645: <p>
1646:
1.236 jose 1647: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1648: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1649: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1650: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1651: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1652: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1653: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1654: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1655: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1656: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1657: conference in Stockholm.
1658: <p>
1659:
1660: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1661: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1662: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1663: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1664: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1665: coordinated.
1666: <p>
1667:
1668: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1670: Security</a></strong>,
1671: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1672: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1673: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1674: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1675: significant security roles.
1676: <p>
1677:
1678: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1679: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1680: meeting</a></strong>,
1681: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1682: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1683: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1684: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1685: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1686: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1687: <p>
1.45 jason 1688:
1.132 louis 1689: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1690: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1691: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1692: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1693: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1694: <p>
1.132 louis 1695:
1.236 jose 1696: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1697: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1698: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1699: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1700: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1701: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1702: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1703: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1704: June.)
1.132 louis 1705: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1706: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1707: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1708:
1.375 grunk 1709: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1710: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1711: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1712: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1713: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1714: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1715: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1716: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1717: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1718: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1719: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1720: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1721: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1722: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1723: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1724: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1725: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1726: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1727: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1728: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1729: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1730: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1731: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1732: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1733: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1734: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1735: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1736: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1737:
1.51 deraadt 1738: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1739: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1740: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1741: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1742: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1743: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1744: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1745: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1746: <p>
1747:
1.53 jakob 1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1750: meeting</a></strong>,
1751: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1752: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1753: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1754: <p>
1755:
1.132 louis 1756: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1757: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1758: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1759: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1760: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1761: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1762: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1763: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1764: <p>
1.236 jose 1765: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1766:
1.132 louis 1767: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1768:
1.236 jose 1769: <ul>
1.132 louis 1770: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1771: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1772: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1773: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1774: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1775: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1776: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1777: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1778: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1779: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1780: <p>
1781:
1.236 jose 1782: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1783: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1784: Conference</a></strong>,
1785: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1786: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1787: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1788: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1789: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1790: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1791: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1792: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1793: <br>
1794: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1795: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1796: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1797: <p>
1798:
1.73 deraadt 1799: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1801: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1802: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1803: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1804: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1805: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1806: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1807: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1808:
1.236 jose 1809: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1810: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1811: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1812: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1813: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1814: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1815: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1816: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1817:
1.80 deraadt 1818: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1819: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1820: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1821: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1822: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1823: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1824: <p>
1825:
1.93 louis 1826: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1827: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1828: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1829: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1830: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1831: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1832: <p>
1833:
1.216 jose 1834: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1835: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1836: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1837: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1838: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1839: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1840: <p>
1841:
1.236 jose 1842: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1843: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1844: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1845: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1846: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1847: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1848: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1849: <br>
1850: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1851: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1852: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1853: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1854: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1855:
1.236 jose 1856: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1857: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1858: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1859: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1860: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1861: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1862: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1863: <p>
1864:
1.236 jose 1865: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1866: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1867: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1868: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1869: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1870: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1871: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1872: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1873: <br>
1874: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1875: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1876: <p>
1877:
1.105 wvdputte 1878: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1879: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1880: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1881: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1882: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1883: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1884: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1885: <br>
1.132 louis 1886: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1887: <p>
1.236 jose 1888: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1889:
1.132 louis 1890: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1891:
1.236 jose 1892: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1893: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1894: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1895: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1896: Niels held a
1897: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1898: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1899: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1900: <p>
1.132 louis 1901:
1.236 jose 1902: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1903: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1904: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1905: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1906: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1907: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1908:
1.236 jose 1909: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1910: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1911: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1912: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1913: <br>
1914: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1915: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1917: <p>
1918:
1.125 deraadt 1919: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1920: <a
1921: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1922: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1923: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1924: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1925: </ul>
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