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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:
1.492 deraadt 45: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
46: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1.493 ! deraadt 47: June 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.492 deraadt 48: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter will discuss various OpenBSD issues such
49: as supporting wireless devices really well and why our fanatical
1.493 ! deraadt 50: resistance to blobs is the sane approach. Some other OpenBSD
! 51: developers will attend as well to provide international colour,
! 52: and we will have tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
1.492 deraadt 53: <p>
54:
1.446 wvdputte 55: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
56: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.477 martin 57: May 31 - June 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 58: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
59: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
60: <p>
61:
1.487 bernd 62: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
63: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
64: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
65: June 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
66: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
67: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
68: <p>
1.491 bernd 69:
70: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
71: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
72: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
73: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
74: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
75: <p>
1.236 jose 76: </ul>
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1.152 jakob 78: <hr>
79:
80: <h2>Past events:</h2>
81:
1.455 grunk 82: <h3>2006</h3>
83: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 84:
1.491 bernd 85: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
86: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
87: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
88: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
89: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
90: PF tutorial</a>.
91: <p>
92:
1.490 reyk 93: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
94: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
95: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
96: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
97: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
98: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
99: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
100: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
101: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
102: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
103: <p>
104:
1.489 bernd 105: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
106: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
107: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
108: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
109: the overall system and its great features.
110: <p>
111:
1.484 mbalmer 112: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
113: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
114: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
115: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
116: <ul>
117: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
118: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 119: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 120: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
121: distributions...
122: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
123: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 124: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 125: infrastructure.
126: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
127: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
128: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
129: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
130: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
131: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
132: </ul>
133: <br>
134: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 135: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 136: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
137: <br>
138: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
139: usual suspects.
140: <p>
141:
142: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
143: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
144: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
145: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
146: <p>
147:
1.486 mickey 148: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
149: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
150: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
151: Mickey gave a talk
152: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
153: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
154: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
155: <p>
156:
1.484 mbalmer 157: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
158: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
159: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
160: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
161: talk. There is a
162: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
163: <p>
164:
1.478 mbalmer 165: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
166: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
167: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
168: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
169: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
170: well received.
171: <br>
172: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
173: and we could draw a lot of attention.
174: <p>
175:
1.479 deraadt 176: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
178: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
179: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 180: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
181: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
182: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 183: only).
184: <p>
185:
1.475 deraadt 186: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
187: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
188: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
189: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
190: Jason Dixon presented
191: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
192: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
193: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
194: <br>
195: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
196: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
197: <p>
198:
199: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
200: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
201: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
202: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
203: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
204: <br>
205: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
206: on sale.
207: <p>
208:
1.469 tom 209: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
210: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
211: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
212: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
213: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
214: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
215: Peter N. M. Hansteen
216: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
217: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
218: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
219: drivers for OpenBSD".
220: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
221: <p>
222:
1.459 henning 223: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
224: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
225: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
226: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
227: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
228: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
229: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
230: <p>
231:
1.457 wvdputte 232: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
233: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
234: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
235: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 236: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 237: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
238: BSD dinner. More details and
239: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 240: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 241: <p>
242:
243: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
244: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
245: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
246: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
247: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
248: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
249: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
250: <p>
1.455 grunk 251:
1.456 henning 252: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
253: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
254: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
255: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
256: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
257: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
258: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
259: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
260: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
261: <p>
262:
1.455 grunk 263: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
264: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
265: </strong>,
266: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
267: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
268: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
269: <p>
270: </ul>
271:
1.296 mcbride 272: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 273:
274: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 275:
1.445 martin 276: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
277: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
278: Berlin</a></strong>,
279: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
280: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
281: <p>
282:
1.435 matthieu 283: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
284: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
285: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
286: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
287: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 288: event.
1.444 grunk 289: The program included a
290: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 291: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
292: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 293: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
294: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 295: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 296: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 297: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 298: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 299: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 300: <p>
1.435 matthieu 301: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
302: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
303: <p>
304:
1.434 bernd 305: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
306: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
307: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
308: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
309: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
310: <p>
311:
1.441 niallo 312: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
313: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
314: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
315: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
316: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
317: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
318: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
319: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
320: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
321: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
322: scripts.
323: <p>
324:
1.424 mbalmer 325: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
326: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
327: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 328: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
329: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
330: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 331: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 332: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 333: talks, including
334: <ul>
335: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
336: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
337: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
338: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
339: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
340: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 341: <p>
342:
343: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
344: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
345: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 346: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 347: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
348: <p>
349:
1.418 djm 350: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
351: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
352: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
353: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
354: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
355: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
356: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 357: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
358: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
359: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 360: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
361: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
362: <p>
363:
1.415 aanriot 364: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
365: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
366: 2005</a></strong>,
367: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
368: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
369: help of Thierry Thomas.
370: <p>
371:
1.420 deraadt 372: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
373: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
374: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
375: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
376: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
377: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
378: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
379: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
380: registration was mandatory.<br>
381: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 382: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 383: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
384: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
385: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 386: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 387: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
388: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
389: mechanism.
390: <p>
391:
1.414 bernd 392: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
393: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
394: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
395: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
396: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
397: <p>
398:
399: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
400: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
401: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
402: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
403: <p>
404:
1.410 wvdputte 405: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
406: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
407: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 408: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
409: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 410: <p>
411:
412: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
413: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
414: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
415: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 416: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 417: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
418: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
419: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
420: installed on your computer.
421: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 422: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 423: <p>
424:
1.404 wvdputte 425: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
426: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 427: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 428: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
429: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 430: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 431: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
432: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
433: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
434: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
435: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
436: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
440: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
441: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
442: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
443: <p>
444:
1.403 henning 445: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
446: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 447: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 448: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
449: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
450: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
451: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
452: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
453: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
454: <p>
455:
1.388 tom 456: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
457: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
458: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 459: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 460: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
461: <p>
462:
1.385 mickey 463: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 464: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 465: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 466: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
467: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 468: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
469: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 470: and an excellent
471: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
472: If you want to see what happened previously, check
473: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
474: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
475: <p>
476:
1.382 pedro 477: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 478: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 479: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 480: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
481: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
482: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 483: <p>
484:
1.378 aanriot 485: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
486: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 487: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 488: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
489: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
490: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
491: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 492: <p>
493:
1.375 grunk 494: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
495: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 496: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 497: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
498: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
499: <p>
500:
1.374 grunk 501: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
502: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 503: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 504: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
505: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
506: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
507: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
508: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
509: <p>
510:
1.371 deraadt 511: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
512: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 513: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 514: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
515: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
516: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
517: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
518: He demonstrated how companies can easily
519: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
520: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
521: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
522: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
523: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
524: <p>
525:
1.366 martin 526: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
527: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
528: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
529: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
530: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
531: CDs and shirts.
532: <p>
533:
1.365 mcbride 534: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
535: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
536: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
537: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
538: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
539: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
540: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
541: <br>
542: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
543: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
544: <p>
545:
1.362 reyk 546: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
547: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
548: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
549: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
550: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
551: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
552: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
553: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
554: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
555: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
556: <p>
557:
1.358 mcbride 558: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
559: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
560: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
561: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
562: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
563: <p>
564:
1.357 henning 565: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
566: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
567: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
568: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
569: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
570: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
571: <p>
572:
1.384 tom 573: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 574: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 575: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 576: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
577: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
578: packages work in front of about 30 people.
579: <p>
580:
1.353 henning 581: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
582: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 583: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 584: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
585: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
586: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
587: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 588: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 589: <p>
590:
1.352 henning 591: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
592: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 593: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 594: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
595: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
596: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
597: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
598: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
599: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
600: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
601: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
602: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
603: available if you couldn't make it there.
604: <p>
605:
1.350 marius 606: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
607:
608: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 609: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 610: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
611: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
612: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
613: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
614: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 615: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 616: <p>
617:
1.345 henning 618: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
619: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 620: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 621: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
622: <p>
623:
1.344 martin 624: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
625: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 626: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 627: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
628: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
629: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
630: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
631: (in French) are available.
632: <p>
633:
1.337 deraadt 634: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
635: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 636: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 637: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
638: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 639: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 640: source firewalls.
641: <p>
642:
1.317 henning 643: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
644: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
645: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 646: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 647: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 648: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 649: <p>
650:
1.312 deraadt 651: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
652: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
653: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 654: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
655: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 656: <p>
657:
1.319 saad 658: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
659: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
660: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
661: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
662: <p>
663:
1.310 mickey 664: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 665: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 666: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 667: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 668: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
669: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 670: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 671: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 672: <p>
1.312 deraadt 673:
1.308 deraadt 674: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
675: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
676: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
677: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 678: talks. Topics included
679: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 680: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
681: OpenBGPD, and pf.
682: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 683: <p>
684:
1.304 saad 685: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
686: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
687: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
688: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
689: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 690: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 691: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 692: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
693: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 694: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 695: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
696: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
697: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 698: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 699: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
700: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
701: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
702: <p>
1.301 saad 703: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
704: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
705: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
706: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
707: <p>
708: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
709: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
710: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
711: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
712: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
713: <p>
1.293 saad 714: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
715: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
716: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
717: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
718: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
719: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 720: french translation team.<br>
721: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
722: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
723: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
724: available.<br>
725: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 726: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
727: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
728: <p>
1.296 mcbride 729: </ul>
1.293 saad 730:
1.296 mcbride 731: <h3>2004</h3>
732:
733: <ul>
1.287 henning 734: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
735: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 736: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 737: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
738: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
739: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 740: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 741: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
742: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
743: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
744: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
745: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
746: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 747: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 748: driver.
749: <p>
1.248 deraadt 750:
1.286 kevlo 751: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 752: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 753: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
754: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
755: <p>
756:
1.285 deraadt 757: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
758: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
759: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
760: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
761: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
762: <p>
763:
1.283 saad 764: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
765: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
766: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
767: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
768: meeting of the
769: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
770: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 771: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 772: <p>
773:
1.282 henning 774: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
775: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
776: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
777: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
778: two days, on bgpd
779: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
780: ntpd
781: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
782: and signal handlers
783: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
784: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
785: <p>
786:
1.275 deraadt 787: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
788: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
789: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
790: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
791: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
792: Room B-02 of the
793: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
794: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
795: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
796: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
797: The talk was also given the following day at the
798: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
799: <p>
800:
1.271 henning 801: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
802: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
803: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, 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: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 807: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 808: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 809: <p>
810:
811: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
812: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
813: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 814: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
815: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 816: <p>
817:
1.276 deraadt 818: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 819: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
820: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
821: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
822: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 826: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
827: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 828: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 829: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 830: <p>
831:
832: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
833: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
834: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
835: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
836: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
837: <p>
838:
1.268 krw 839: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
840: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
841: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
842: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
843: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
844: <p>
845:
1.375 grunk 846: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 847: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
848: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
849: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
850: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
851: <p>
852:
853: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
854: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 855: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 856: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
857: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
858: <p>
859:
1.265 wvdputte 860: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
861: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 862: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 863: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
864: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
865: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
866: event."
867: <br>
868: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
869: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
870: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
871: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
872: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
873: <br>
874: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
875: <p>
876:
1.262 henning 877: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
878: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 879: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 880: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
881: Henning's slides from his talks about
882: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
883: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
884: are available.
885: <p>
886:
1.261 deraadt 887: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 888: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 889: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
890: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
891: newly extended version of the
892: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
893: For more information, see this
894: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
895: ComputerWorld article</a>.
896: <p>
897:
898:
1.257 saad 899: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
900: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 901: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 902: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
903: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
904: <p>
905:
906: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
907: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 908: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 909: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
910: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
911: <p>
912:
1.256 mickey 913: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 914: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 915: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
916: session.
917: <p>
918:
1.254 xsa 919: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 920: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 921: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
922: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
923: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
924: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
925: a basic talk about pf.
926: <p>
927:
1.248 deraadt 928: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 929: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 930: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
931: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 932: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
933: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
934: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 935: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
936: <p>
937:
1.247 canacar 938: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
939: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
940: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
941: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
942: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
943: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
944: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
945: projects were discussed.<br>
946: You can view the
1.281 canacar 947: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 948: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 949: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 950: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
951: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
952: <p>
953:
1.242 henning 954: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
955: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
956: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 957: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
958: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
959: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
960: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
961: and systrace
1.263 saad 962: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 963: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
964: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
965: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 966: <p>
967:
1.240 espie 968: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
969: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
970: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
971: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
972: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
973: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
974: <p>
975:
976: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
977: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
978: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 979: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 980: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
981: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
982: <p>
983: </ul>
984:
1.188 henning 985: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 986:
987: <ul>
1.232 jose 988: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
989: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
990: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
991: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
992: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 993: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 994: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 995: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 996: <p>
1.232 jose 997:
1.228 jose 998: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 999: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1000: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1001: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1002: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1003: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1004: with OpenBSD PF.
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1008: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1009: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1010: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1011: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1012: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1013: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1014: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1015: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1016: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1017: slides in PDF format </a>
1018: (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 1019: <p>
1020:
1.227 jose 1021: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1022: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1023: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1024: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1025: <p>
1026:
1027: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1028: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1029: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1030: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1031: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1032: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1033: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1034: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1035: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1036: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1037: in Internet worm defenses.
1038: <p>
1039:
1.224 miod 1040: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1042: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1043: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1044: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1045: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1046: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1047: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1048: OpenBSD.
1049: <p>
1050:
1051: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1052: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1053: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1054: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1058: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1059: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1060: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1061: <p>
1062:
1.219 jose 1063: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1064: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1065: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1066: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1067: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1068: <p>
1069:
1.218 jose 1070: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1071: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1072: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1073: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1074: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1075: <p>
1076:
1.214 henning 1077: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1078: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1079: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1080: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1081: <p>
1082:
1.213 jose 1083: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1084: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1085: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1086: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1087: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1088: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1089: <p>
1090:
1.211 jose 1091: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1092: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1093: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1094: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1098: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1099: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1100: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1101: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1102: <p>
1103:
1.209 wvdputte 1104: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1105: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1106: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1107: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1108: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1109:
1.202 jason 1110: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1111: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1112: Conference</a></strong>,
1113: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1114: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1115: <ul>
1.216 jose 1116: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1117: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1118: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1119: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1120: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1121: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1122: </ul>
1123: <p>
1124:
1.201 deraadt 1125: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1126: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1127: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1128: session.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.216 jose 1131: <li><strong>
1132: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1133: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1134: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1135: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1136: <p>
1137:
1.216 jose 1138: <li><strong>
1139: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1140: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1141: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1142: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1143: <p>
1144:
1.216 jose 1145: <li><strong>
1146: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1147: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1148: 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 1149: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1150: <p>
1151:
1.216 jose 1152: <li><strong>
1153: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1154: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1155: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1156: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1157: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1158: user groups.
1159: <p>
1160:
1.236 jose 1161: <li><strong>
1162: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1163: Group</a></strong>,
1164: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1165: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1166: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1167: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1168: <p>
1169:
1.216 jose 1170: <li><strong>
1171: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1172: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1173: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1174: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1175: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.216 jose 1178: <li><strong>
1179: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1180: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1181: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1182: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1183: <p>
1.236 jose 1184: </ul>
1.185 miod 1185:
1.161 millert 1186: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1187:
1188: <ul>
1189: <li><strong>
1190: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1191: Congress</a></strong>,
1192: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1193: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1194: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1195: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1196: <p>
1.177 jason 1197:
1.216 jose 1198: <li><strong>
1199: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1200: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1201: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1202: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1203: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1204: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1205: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1206: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1207: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1208: <p>
1.178 pb 1209:
1.216 jose 1210: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1211: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1212: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1213: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1214: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1215: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1216: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1217: <p>
1218:
1.216 jose 1219: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1220: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1221: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1222: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1223: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1224: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1225: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1226: <p>
1227:
1228: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1229: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1230: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1231: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1232: Niels Provos presented his
1233: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1234: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1235: <p>
1.172 miod 1236:
1.216 jose 1237: <li><strong>
1238: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1239: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1240: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.216 jose 1243: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1244: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1245: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1246: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1247: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1248: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1249: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1250: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1251: <p>
1.168 miod 1252:
1.216 jose 1253: <li><strong>
1254: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1255: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1256: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1257: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1258: are available.
1.161 millert 1259: <p>
1260:
1.216 jose 1261: <li><strong>
1262: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1263: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1264: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1265: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1266: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1267: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1268: <p>
1269:
1.216 jose 1270: <li><strong>
1271: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1272: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1273: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1274: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1275: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1276: <p>
1.236 jose 1277: </ul>
1.164 millert 1278:
1.152 jakob 1279: <h3>2001</h3>
1280:
1.236 jose 1281: <ul>
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong>
1283: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1284: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1285: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1286: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1287: <p>
1288:
1.216 jose 1289: <li><strong>
1290: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1291: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1292: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1293: <p>
1294:
1.158 deraadt 1295: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1296: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1297: 2001</a></strong>,
1298: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1299: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1300: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1301: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1302: <p>
1303:
1.216 jose 1304: <li><strong>
1305: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1306: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1307: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1308: <p>
1309:
1.201 deraadt 1310: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1311: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1312: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1313: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1314:
1.150 wvdputte 1315: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1316: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1317: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1318: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1319: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1320: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1321: <p>
1.137 aaron 1322:
1323: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1324: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1325: Conference</a></strong>,
1326: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1327: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1328: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1329: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1330: <p>
1331:
1332: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1333: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1334: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1335: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1336: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1337: <p>
1338:
1339: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1340: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1341: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1342: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1343: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1344: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1345: <p>
1346:
1347: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1348: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1349: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1350: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1351: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1352: <p>
1353:
1354: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1355: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1356: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1357: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1358: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1359: security community.
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1363: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1364: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1365: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1366: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1367: <p>
1368:
1369: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1370: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1371: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1372: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1373: <p>
1.236 jose 1374: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1375:
1.132 louis 1376: <h3>2000</h3>
1377:
1.236 jose 1378: <ul>
1.132 louis 1379: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1380: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1381: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1382: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1383: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1384: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1388: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1389: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1390: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1391: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1392: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1393: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1394: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1395: <p>
1396:
1397: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1398: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1399: 2000</a></strong>,
1400: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1401: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1402: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1403: <p>
1.4 millert 1404:
1.132 louis 1405: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1406: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1407: Summit</a></strong>,
1408: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1409: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1410: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1411: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1412:
1413: <ul>
1.236 jose 1414: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1415: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1416: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1417: </ul>
1.4 millert 1418: <p>
1.132 louis 1419:
1.7 deraadt 1420: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1421: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1422: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1423: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1424: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1425: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1426: mind (drinks afterwards).
1427: <p>
1428:
1.216 jose 1429: <li><strong>
1430: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1431: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1432: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1433: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1434: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1435:
1.132 louis 1436: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1437: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1438: Revolution</a></strong>,
1439: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1440: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1441: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1442: <p>
1443:
1.132 louis 1444: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1445: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1446: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1447: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1448: <ul>
1.236 jose 1449: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1450: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1451: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1452: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1453: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1454: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1455: <p>
1.132 louis 1456:
1.10 provos 1457: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1458: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1459: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1460: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1461: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1462: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1463: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1464: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1465: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1466: <br>
1467: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1468: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1469: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1470:
1.132 louis 1471: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1472: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1473: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1474: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1475: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1476: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1477: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1478: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1479: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1480: and spoke about
1481: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1482: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1483: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1484: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1485: <p>
1.132 louis 1486:
1.6 deraadt 1487: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1488: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1489: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1490: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1491: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1492: <br>
1493: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1494: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1495: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1496: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1497:
1.216 jose 1498: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1499: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1500: Conference.</a></strong>,
1501: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1502: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1503: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1504: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1505: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1506: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1507: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1508: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1509: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1510: <ul>
1511:
1512: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1513: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1514: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1515: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1516: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1517:
1518: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1519: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1520: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1521: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1522: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1523:
1.132 louis 1524: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1525: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1526: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1527: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1528: <p>
1529:
1.132 louis 1530: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1531: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1532: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1533: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1534: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1535: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1536: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1537: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1538:
1.132 louis 1539: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1540: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1541: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1542: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1543: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1544: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1545: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1546: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1547: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1548:
1.17 deraadt 1549: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1550: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1551: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1552: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1553: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1554: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1555: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1556: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1557: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1558:
1.23 niklas 1559: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1560: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1561: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1562: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1563: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1564: efforts.
1565: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1566: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1567: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1568: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1569: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1570: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1571:
1.132 louis 1572: <li><strong>
1573: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1574: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1575: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1576: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1577: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1578: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1579: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1580: <p>
1.23 niklas 1581:
1.31 deraadt 1582: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1583: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1584: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1585: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1586: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1587: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1588: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1589: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1590: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1591: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1592:
1.201 deraadt 1593: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1594: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1595: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1596: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1597: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1598: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1599: <p>
1.236 jose 1600: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1601:
1.132 louis 1602: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1603:
1.236 jose 1604: <ul>
1.216 jose 1605: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1606: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1607: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1608: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1609: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1610: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1611: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1612: <p>
1613:
1.216 jose 1614: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1615: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1616: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1617: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1618: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1619: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1620: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1621: There were many other OpenBSD
1622: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1623: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1624:
1625: <ul>
1626: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1627: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1628: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1629: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1630: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1631: </ul>
1632: <p>
1633:
1634: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1635: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1636: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1637: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1638: <p>
1639:
1640: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1641: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1642: Software '99</a></strong>,
1643: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1644: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1645: <a
1.375 grunk 1646: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1647: <p>
1648:
1649: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1650: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1651: 1999</a></strong>,
1652: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1653: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1654: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1655: <p>
1656:
1.236 jose 1657: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1658: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1659: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1660: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1661: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1662: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1663: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1664: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1665: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1666: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1667: conference in Stockholm.
1668: <p>
1669:
1670: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1671: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1672: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1673: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1674: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1675: coordinated.
1676: <p>
1677:
1678: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1679: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1680: Security</a></strong>,
1681: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1682: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1683: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1684: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1685: significant security roles.
1686: <p>
1687:
1688: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1689: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1690: meeting</a></strong>,
1691: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1692: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1693: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1694: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1695: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1696: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1697: <p>
1.45 jason 1698:
1.132 louis 1699: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1700: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1701: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1702: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1703: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1704: <p>
1.132 louis 1705:
1.236 jose 1706: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1707: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1708: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1709: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1710: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1711: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1712: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1713: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1714: June.)
1.132 louis 1715: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1716: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1717: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1718:
1.375 grunk 1719: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1720: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1721: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1722: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1723: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1724: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1725: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1726: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1727: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1728: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1729: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1730: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1731: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1732: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1733: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1734: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1735: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1736: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1737: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1738: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1739: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1740: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1741: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1742: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1743: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1744: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1745: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1746: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1747:
1.51 deraadt 1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1750: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1751: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1752: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1753: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1754: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1755: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1756: <p>
1757:
1.53 jakob 1758: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1759: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1760: meeting</a></strong>,
1761: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1762: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1763: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1764: <p>
1765:
1.132 louis 1766: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1767: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1768: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1769: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1770: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1771: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1772: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1773: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1774: <p>
1.236 jose 1775: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1776:
1.132 louis 1777: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1778:
1.236 jose 1779: <ul>
1.132 louis 1780: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1781: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1782: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1783: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1784: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1785: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1786: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1787: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1788: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1789: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1790: <p>
1791:
1.236 jose 1792: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1793: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1794: Conference</a></strong>,
1795: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1796: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1797: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1798: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1799: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1800: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1801: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1802: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1803: <br>
1804: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1805: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1806: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1807: <p>
1808:
1.73 deraadt 1809: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1810: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1811: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1812: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1813: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1814: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1815: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1816: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1817: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1818:
1.236 jose 1819: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1820: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1821: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1822: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1823: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1824: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1825: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1826: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1827:
1.80 deraadt 1828: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1829: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1830: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1831: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1832: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1833: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1834: <p>
1835:
1.93 louis 1836: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1837: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1838: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1839: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1840: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1841: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1842: <p>
1843:
1.216 jose 1844: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1845: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1846: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1847: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1848: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1849: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1850: <p>
1851:
1.236 jose 1852: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1853: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1854: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1855: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1856: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1857: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1858: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1859: <br>
1860: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1861: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1862: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1863: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1864: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1865:
1.236 jose 1866: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1867: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1868: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1869: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1870: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1871: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1872: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1873: <p>
1874:
1.236 jose 1875: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1876: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1877: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1878: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1879: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1880: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1881: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1882: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1883: <br>
1884: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1885: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1886: <p>
1887:
1.105 wvdputte 1888: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1889: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1890: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1891: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1892: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1893: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1894: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1895: <br>
1.132 louis 1896: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1897: <p>
1.236 jose 1898: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1899:
1.132 louis 1900: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1901:
1.236 jose 1902: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1903: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1904: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1905: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1906: Niels held a
1907: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1908: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1909: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1910: <p>
1.132 louis 1911:
1.236 jose 1912: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1913: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1914: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1915: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1916: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1917: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1918:
1.236 jose 1919: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1920: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1921: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1922: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1923: <br>
1924: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1925: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1926: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1927: <p>
1928:
1.125 deraadt 1929: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1930: <a
1931: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1932: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1933: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1934: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1935: </ul>
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