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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 23: <hr>
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32: <a href=LINK>EVENT NAME</a></strong>,
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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>,
1.497 ! deraadt 47: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.496 grunk 48: Starting at 6pm, Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter will discuss various OpenBSD
49: issues such
1.492 deraadt 50: as supporting wireless devices really well and why our fanatical
1.493 deraadt 51: resistance to blobs is the sane approach. Some other OpenBSD
52: developers will attend as well to provide international colour,
53: and we will have tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
1.492 deraadt 54: <p>
55:
1.446 wvdputte 56: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
57: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a></strong>,
1.497 ! deraadt 58: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 59: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
60: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
61: <p>
62:
1.497 ! deraadt 63: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
! 64: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
! 65: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
! 66: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
! 67: will be giving a talk and live demonstration on redundant failover
! 68: OpenBSD firewalls. He will explain why OpenBSD solves many problems that
! 69: had been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions. Attendees will
! 70: learn about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against bad
! 71: licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
! 72: <p>
! 73:
1.487 bernd 74: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
75: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
76: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
1.497 ! deraadt 77: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.487 bernd 78: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
79: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
80: <p>
1.491 bernd 81:
82: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
83: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
84: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
85: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
86: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
87: <p>
1.236 jose 88: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 89:
1.152 jakob 90: <hr>
91:
92: <h2>Past events:</h2>
93:
1.455 grunk 94: <h3>2006</h3>
95: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 96:
1.491 bernd 97: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
98: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
99: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
100: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
101: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
102: PF tutorial</a>.
103: <p>
104:
1.490 reyk 105: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
106: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
107: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
108: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
109: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
110: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
111: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
112: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
113: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
114: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
115: <p>
116:
1.489 bernd 117: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
118: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
119: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
120: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
121: the overall system and its great features.
122: <p>
123:
1.484 mbalmer 124: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
125: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
126: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
127: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
128: <ul>
129: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
130: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 131: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 132: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
133: distributions...
134: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
135: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 136: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 137: infrastructure.
138: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
139: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
140: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
141: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
142: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
143: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
144: </ul>
145: <br>
146: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 147: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 148: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
149: <br>
150: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
151: usual suspects.
152: <p>
153:
154: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
155: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
156: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
157: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
158: <p>
159:
1.486 mickey 160: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
161: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
162: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
163: Mickey gave a talk
164: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
165: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
166: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
167: <p>
168:
1.484 mbalmer 169: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
170: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
171: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
172: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
173: talk. There is a
174: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
175: <p>
176:
1.478 mbalmer 177: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
178: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
179: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
180: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
181: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
182: well received.
183: <br>
184: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
185: and we could draw a lot of attention.
186: <p>
187:
1.479 deraadt 188: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
189: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
190: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
191: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 192: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
193: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
194: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 195: only).
196: <p>
197:
1.475 deraadt 198: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
199: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
200: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
201: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
202: Jason Dixon presented
203: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
204: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
205: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
206: <br>
207: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
208: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
209: <p>
210:
211: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
212: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
213: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
214: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
215: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
216: <br>
217: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
218: on sale.
219: <p>
220:
1.469 tom 221: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
222: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
223: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
224: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
225: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
226: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
227: Peter N. M. Hansteen
228: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
229: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
230: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
231: drivers for OpenBSD".
232: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
233: <p>
234:
1.459 henning 235: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
236: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
237: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
238: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
239: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
240: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
241: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
242: <p>
243:
1.457 wvdputte 244: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
245: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
246: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
247: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 248: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 249: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
250: BSD dinner. More details and
251: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 252: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 253: <p>
254:
255: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
256: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
257: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
258: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
259: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
260: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
261: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
262: <p>
1.455 grunk 263:
1.456 henning 264: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
265: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
266: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
267: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
268: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
269: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
270: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
271: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
272: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
273: <p>
274:
1.455 grunk 275: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
276: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
277: </strong>,
278: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
279: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
280: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
281: <p>
282: </ul>
283:
1.296 mcbride 284: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 285:
286: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 287:
1.445 martin 288: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
289: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
290: Berlin</a></strong>,
291: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
292: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
293: <p>
294:
1.435 matthieu 295: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
296: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
297: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
298: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
299: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 300: event.
1.444 grunk 301: The program included a
302: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 303: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
304: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 305: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
306: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 307: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 308: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 309: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 310: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 311: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 312: <p>
1.435 matthieu 313: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
314: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
315: <p>
316:
1.434 bernd 317: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
318: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
319: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
320: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
321: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
322: <p>
323:
1.441 niallo 324: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
325: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
326: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
327: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
328: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
329: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
330: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
331: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
332: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
333: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
334: scripts.
335: <p>
336:
1.424 mbalmer 337: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
338: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
339: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 340: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
341: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
342: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 343: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 344: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 345: talks, including
346: <ul>
347: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
348: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
349: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
350: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
351: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
352: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 353: <p>
354:
355: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
356: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
357: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 358: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 359: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
360: <p>
361:
1.418 djm 362: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
363: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
364: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
365: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
366: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
367: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
368: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 369: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
370: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
371: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 372: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
373: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
374: <p>
375:
1.415 aanriot 376: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
377: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
378: 2005</a></strong>,
379: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
380: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
381: help of Thierry Thomas.
382: <p>
383:
1.420 deraadt 384: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
385: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
386: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
387: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
388: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
389: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
390: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
391: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
392: registration was mandatory.<br>
393: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 394: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 395: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
396: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
397: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 398: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 399: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
400: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
401: mechanism.
402: <p>
403:
1.414 bernd 404: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
405: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
406: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
407: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
408: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
412: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
413: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
414: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
415: <p>
416:
1.410 wvdputte 417: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
418: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
419: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 420: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
421: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 422: <p>
423:
424: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
425: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
426: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
427: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 428: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 429: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
430: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
431: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
432: installed on your computer.
433: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 434: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 435: <p>
436:
1.404 wvdputte 437: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
438: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 439: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 440: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
441: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 442: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 443: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
444: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
445: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
446: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
447: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
448: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
452: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
453: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
454: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
455: <p>
456:
1.403 henning 457: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
458: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 459: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 460: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
461: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
462: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
463: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
464: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
465: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
466: <p>
467:
1.388 tom 468: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
469: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
470: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 471: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 472: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
473: <p>
474:
1.385 mickey 475: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 476: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 477: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 478: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
479: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 480: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
481: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 482: and an excellent
483: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
484: If you want to see what happened previously, check
485: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
486: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
487: <p>
488:
1.382 pedro 489: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 490: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 491: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 492: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
493: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
494: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 495: <p>
496:
1.378 aanriot 497: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
498: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 499: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 500: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
501: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
502: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
503: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 504: <p>
505:
1.375 grunk 506: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
507: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 508: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 509: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
510: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
511: <p>
512:
1.374 grunk 513: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
514: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 515: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 516: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
517: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
518: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
519: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
520: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
521: <p>
522:
1.371 deraadt 523: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
524: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 525: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 526: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
527: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
528: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
529: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
530: He demonstrated how companies can easily
531: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
532: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
533: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
534: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
535: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
536: <p>
537:
1.366 martin 538: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
539: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
540: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
541: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
542: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
543: CDs and shirts.
544: <p>
545:
1.365 mcbride 546: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
547: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
548: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
549: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
550: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
551: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
552: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
553: <br>
554: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
555: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
556: <p>
557:
1.362 reyk 558: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
559: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
560: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
561: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
562: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
563: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
564: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
565: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
566: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
567: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
568: <p>
569:
1.358 mcbride 570: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
571: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
572: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
573: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
574: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
575: <p>
576:
1.357 henning 577: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
578: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
579: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
580: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
581: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
582: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
583: <p>
584:
1.384 tom 585: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 586: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 587: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 588: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
589: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
590: packages work in front of about 30 people.
591: <p>
592:
1.353 henning 593: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
594: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 595: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 596: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
597: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
598: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
599: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 600: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 601: <p>
602:
1.352 henning 603: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
604: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 605: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 606: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
607: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
608: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
609: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
610: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
611: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
612: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
613: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
614: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
615: available if you couldn't make it there.
616: <p>
617:
1.350 marius 618: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
619:
620: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 621: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 622: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
623: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
624: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
625: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
626: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 627: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 628: <p>
629:
1.345 henning 630: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
631: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 632: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 633: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
634: <p>
635:
1.344 martin 636: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
637: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 638: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 639: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
640: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
641: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
642: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
643: (in French) are available.
644: <p>
645:
1.337 deraadt 646: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
647: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 648: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 649: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
650: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 651: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 652: source firewalls.
653: <p>
654:
1.317 henning 655: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
656: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
657: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 658: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 659: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 660: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 661: <p>
662:
1.312 deraadt 663: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
664: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
665: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 666: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
667: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 668: <p>
669:
1.319 saad 670: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
671: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
672: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
673: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
674: <p>
675:
1.310 mickey 676: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 677: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 678: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 679: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 680: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
681: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 682: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 683: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 684: <p>
1.312 deraadt 685:
1.308 deraadt 686: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
687: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
688: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
689: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 690: talks. Topics included
691: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 692: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
693: OpenBGPD, and pf.
694: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 695: <p>
696:
1.304 saad 697: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
698: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
699: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
700: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
701: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 702: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 703: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 704: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
705: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 706: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 707: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
708: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
709: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 710: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 711: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
712: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
713: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
714: <p>
1.301 saad 715: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
716: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
717: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
718: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
719: <p>
720: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
721: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
722: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
723: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
724: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
725: <p>
1.293 saad 726: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
727: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
728: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
729: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
730: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
731: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 732: french translation team.<br>
733: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
734: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
735: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
736: available.<br>
737: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 738: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
739: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
740: <p>
1.296 mcbride 741: </ul>
1.293 saad 742:
1.296 mcbride 743: <h3>2004</h3>
744:
745: <ul>
1.287 henning 746: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
747: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 748: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 749: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
750: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
751: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 752: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 753: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
754: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
755: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
756: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
757: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
758: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 759: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 760: driver.
761: <p>
1.248 deraadt 762:
1.286 kevlo 763: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 764: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 765: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
766: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
767: <p>
768:
1.285 deraadt 769: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
770: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
771: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
772: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
773: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
774: <p>
775:
1.283 saad 776: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
777: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
778: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
779: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
780: meeting of the
781: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
782: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 783: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 784: <p>
785:
1.282 henning 786: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
787: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
788: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
789: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
790: two days, on bgpd
791: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
792: ntpd
793: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
794: and signal handlers
795: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
796: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
797: <p>
798:
1.275 deraadt 799: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
800: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
801: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
802: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
803: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
804: Room B-02 of the
805: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
806: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
807: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
808: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
809: The talk was also given the following day at the
810: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
811: <p>
812:
1.271 henning 813: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
814: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
815: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 816: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
817: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 818: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 819: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 820: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 821: <p>
822:
823: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
824: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
825: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 826: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
827: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 828: <p>
829:
1.276 deraadt 830: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 831: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
832: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
833: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
834: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
835: <p>
836:
837: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 838: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
839: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 840: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 841: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 842: <p>
843:
844: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
845: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
846: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
847: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
848: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
849: <p>
850:
1.268 krw 851: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
852: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
853: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
854: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
855: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
856: <p>
857:
1.375 grunk 858: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 859: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
860: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
861: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
862: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
866: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 867: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 868: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
869: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
870: <p>
871:
1.265 wvdputte 872: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
873: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 874: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 875: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
876: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
877: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
878: event."
879: <br>
880: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
881: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
882: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
883: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
884: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
885: <br>
886: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
887: <p>
888:
1.262 henning 889: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
890: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 891: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 892: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
893: Henning's slides from his talks about
894: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
895: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
896: are available.
897: <p>
898:
1.261 deraadt 899: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 900: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 901: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
902: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
903: newly extended version of the
904: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
905: For more information, see this
906: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
907: ComputerWorld article</a>.
908: <p>
909:
910:
1.257 saad 911: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
912: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 913: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 914: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
915: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
916: <p>
917:
918: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
919: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 920: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 921: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
922: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
923: <p>
924:
1.256 mickey 925: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 926: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 927: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
928: session.
929: <p>
930:
1.254 xsa 931: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 932: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 933: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
934: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
935: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
936: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
937: a basic talk about pf.
938: <p>
939:
1.248 deraadt 940: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 941: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 942: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
943: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 944: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
945: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
946: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 947: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
948: <p>
949:
1.247 canacar 950: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
951: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
952: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
953: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
954: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
955: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
956: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
957: projects were discussed.<br>
958: You can view the
1.281 canacar 959: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 960: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 961: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 962: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
963: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
964: <p>
965:
1.242 henning 966: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
967: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
968: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 969: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
970: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
971: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
972: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
973: and systrace
1.263 saad 974: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 975: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
976: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
977: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 978: <p>
979:
1.240 espie 980: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
981: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
982: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
983: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
984: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
985: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
986: <p>
987:
988: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
989: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
990: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 991: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 992: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
993: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
994: <p>
995: </ul>
996:
1.188 henning 997: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 998:
999: <ul>
1.232 jose 1000: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1001: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1002: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1003: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1004: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1005: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1006: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1007: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1008: <p>
1.232 jose 1009:
1.228 jose 1010: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1011: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1012: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1013: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1014: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1015: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1016: with OpenBSD PF.
1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1020: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1021: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1022: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1023: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1024: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1025: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1026: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1027: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1028: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1029: slides in PDF format </a>
1030: (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 1031: <p>
1032:
1.227 jose 1033: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1034: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1035: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1036: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1040: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1041: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1042: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1043: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1044: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1045: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1046: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1047: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1048: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1049: in Internet worm defenses.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.224 miod 1052: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1053: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1054: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1055: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1056: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1057: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1058: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1059: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1060: OpenBSD.
1061: <p>
1062:
1063: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1064: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1065: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1066: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1067: <p>
1068:
1069: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1070: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1071: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1072: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.219 jose 1075: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1076: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1077: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1078: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1079: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1080: <p>
1081:
1.218 jose 1082: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1083: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1084: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1085: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1086: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.214 henning 1089: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1090: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1091: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1092: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1093: <p>
1094:
1.213 jose 1095: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1096: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1097: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1098: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1099: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1100: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1101: <p>
1102:
1.211 jose 1103: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1104: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1105: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1106: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1107: <p>
1108:
1109: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1110: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1111: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1112: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1113: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1114: <p>
1115:
1.209 wvdputte 1116: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1117: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1118: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1119: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1120: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1121:
1.202 jason 1122: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1123: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1124: Conference</a></strong>,
1125: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1126: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1127: <ul>
1.216 jose 1128: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1129: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1130: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1131: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1132: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1133: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1134: </ul>
1135: <p>
1136:
1.201 deraadt 1137: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1138: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1139: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1140: session.
1141: <p>
1142:
1.216 jose 1143: <li><strong>
1144: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1145: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1146: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1147: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1148: <p>
1149:
1.216 jose 1150: <li><strong>
1151: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1152: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1153: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1154: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1155: <p>
1156:
1.216 jose 1157: <li><strong>
1158: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1159: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1160: 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 1161: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1162: <p>
1163:
1.216 jose 1164: <li><strong>
1165: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1166: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1167: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1168: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1169: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1170: user groups.
1171: <p>
1172:
1.236 jose 1173: <li><strong>
1174: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1175: Group</a></strong>,
1176: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1177: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1178: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1179: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.216 jose 1182: <li><strong>
1183: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1184: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1185: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1186: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1187: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1188: <p>
1189:
1.216 jose 1190: <li><strong>
1191: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1192: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1193: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1194: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1195: <p>
1.236 jose 1196: </ul>
1.185 miod 1197:
1.161 millert 1198: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1199:
1200: <ul>
1201: <li><strong>
1202: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1203: Congress</a></strong>,
1204: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1205: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1206: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1207: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1208: <p>
1.177 jason 1209:
1.216 jose 1210: <li><strong>
1211: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1212: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1213: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1214: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1215: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1216: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1217: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1218: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1219: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1220: <p>
1.178 pb 1221:
1.216 jose 1222: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1223: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1224: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1225: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1226: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1227: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1228: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1229: <p>
1230:
1.216 jose 1231: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1232: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1233: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1234: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1235: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1236: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1237: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1238: <p>
1239:
1240: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1241: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1242: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1243: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1244: Niels Provos presented his
1245: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1246: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1247: <p>
1.172 miod 1248:
1.216 jose 1249: <li><strong>
1250: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1251: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1252: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1253: <p>
1254:
1.216 jose 1255: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1257: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1258: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1259: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1260: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1261: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1262: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1263: <p>
1.168 miod 1264:
1.216 jose 1265: <li><strong>
1266: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1267: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1268: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1269: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1270: are available.
1.161 millert 1271: <p>
1272:
1.216 jose 1273: <li><strong>
1274: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1275: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1276: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1277: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1278: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1279: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1280: <p>
1281:
1.216 jose 1282: <li><strong>
1283: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1284: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1285: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1286: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1287: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1288: <p>
1.236 jose 1289: </ul>
1.164 millert 1290:
1.152 jakob 1291: <h3>2001</h3>
1292:
1.236 jose 1293: <ul>
1.216 jose 1294: <li><strong>
1295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1296: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1297: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1298: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1299: <p>
1300:
1.216 jose 1301: <li><strong>
1302: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1303: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1304: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.158 deraadt 1307: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1308: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1309: 2001</a></strong>,
1310: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1311: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1312: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1313: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1314: <p>
1315:
1.216 jose 1316: <li><strong>
1317: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1318: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1319: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1320: <p>
1321:
1.201 deraadt 1322: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1323: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1324: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1325: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1326:
1.150 wvdputte 1327: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1328: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1329: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1330: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1331: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1332: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1333: <p>
1.137 aaron 1334:
1335: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1336: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1337: Conference</a></strong>,
1338: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1339: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1340: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1341: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1342: <p>
1343:
1344: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1345: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1346: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1347: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1348: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1349: <p>
1350:
1351: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1352: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1353: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1354: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1355: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1356: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1357: <p>
1358:
1359: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1360: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1361: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1362: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1363: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1364: <p>
1365:
1366: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1367: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1368: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1369: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1370: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1371: security community.
1372: <p>
1373:
1374: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1375: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1376: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1377: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1378: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1379: <p>
1380:
1381: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1382: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1383: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1384: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1385: <p>
1.236 jose 1386: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1387:
1.132 louis 1388: <h3>2000</h3>
1389:
1.236 jose 1390: <ul>
1.132 louis 1391: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1392: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1393: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1394: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1395: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1396: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1400: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1401: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1402: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1403: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1404: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1405: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1406: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1407: <p>
1408:
1409: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1410: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1411: 2000</a></strong>,
1412: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1413: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1414: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1415: <p>
1.4 millert 1416:
1.132 louis 1417: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1418: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1419: Summit</a></strong>,
1420: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1421: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1422: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1423: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1424:
1425: <ul>
1.236 jose 1426: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1427: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1428: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1429: </ul>
1.4 millert 1430: <p>
1.132 louis 1431:
1.7 deraadt 1432: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1433: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1434: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1435: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1436: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1437: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1438: mind (drinks afterwards).
1439: <p>
1440:
1.216 jose 1441: <li><strong>
1442: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1443: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1444: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1445: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1446: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1447:
1.132 louis 1448: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1449: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1450: Revolution</a></strong>,
1451: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1452: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1453: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1454: <p>
1455:
1.132 louis 1456: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1457: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1458: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1459: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1460: <ul>
1.236 jose 1461: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1462: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1463: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1464: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1465: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1466: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1467: <p>
1.132 louis 1468:
1.10 provos 1469: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1470: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1471: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1472: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1473: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1474: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1475: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1476: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1477: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1478: <br>
1479: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1480: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1481: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1482:
1.132 louis 1483: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1484: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1485: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1486: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1487: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1488: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1489: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1490: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1491: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1492: and spoke about
1493: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1494: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1495: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1496: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1497: <p>
1.132 louis 1498:
1.6 deraadt 1499: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1500: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1501: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1502: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1503: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1504: <br>
1505: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1506: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1507: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1508: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1509:
1.216 jose 1510: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1511: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1512: Conference.</a></strong>,
1513: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1514: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1515: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1516: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1517: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1518: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1519: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1520: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1521: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1522: <ul>
1523:
1524: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1525: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1526: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1527: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1528: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1529:
1530: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1531: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1532: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1533: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1534: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1535:
1.132 louis 1536: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1537: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1538: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1539: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1540: <p>
1541:
1.132 louis 1542: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1543: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1544: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1545: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1546: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1547: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1548: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1549: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1550:
1.132 louis 1551: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1552: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1553: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1554: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1555: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1556: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1557: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1558: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1559: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1560:
1.17 deraadt 1561: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1562: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1563: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1564: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1565: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1566: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1567: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1568: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1569: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1570:
1.23 niklas 1571: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1572: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1573: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1574: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1575: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1576: efforts.
1577: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1578: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1579: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1580: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1581: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1582: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1583:
1.132 louis 1584: <li><strong>
1585: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1586: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1587: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1588: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1589: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1590: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1591: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1592: <p>
1.23 niklas 1593:
1.31 deraadt 1594: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1595: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1596: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1597: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1598: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1599: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1600: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1601: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1602: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1603: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1604:
1.201 deraadt 1605: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1606: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1607: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1608: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1609: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1610: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1611: <p>
1.236 jose 1612: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1613:
1.132 louis 1614: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1615:
1.236 jose 1616: <ul>
1.216 jose 1617: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1618: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1619: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1620: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1621: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1622: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1623: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1624: <p>
1625:
1.216 jose 1626: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1627: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1628: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1629: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1630: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1631: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1632: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1633: There were many other OpenBSD
1634: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1635: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1636:
1637: <ul>
1638: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1640: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1641: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1642: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1643: </ul>
1644: <p>
1645:
1646: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1647: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1648: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1649: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1650: <p>
1651:
1652: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1653: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1654: Software '99</a></strong>,
1655: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1656: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1657: <a
1.375 grunk 1658: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1659: <p>
1660:
1661: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1662: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1663: 1999</a></strong>,
1664: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1665: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1666: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1667: <p>
1668:
1.236 jose 1669: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1670: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1671: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1672: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1673: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1674: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1675: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1676: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1677: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1678: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1679: conference in Stockholm.
1680: <p>
1681:
1682: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1683: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1684: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1685: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1686: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1687: coordinated.
1688: <p>
1689:
1690: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1691: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1692: Security</a></strong>,
1693: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1694: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1695: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1696: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1697: significant security roles.
1698: <p>
1699:
1700: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1701: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1702: meeting</a></strong>,
1703: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1704: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1705: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1706: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1707: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1708: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1709: <p>
1.45 jason 1710:
1.132 louis 1711: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1712: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1713: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1714: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1715: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1716: <p>
1.132 louis 1717:
1.236 jose 1718: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1719: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1720: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1721: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1722: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1723: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1724: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1725: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1726: June.)
1.132 louis 1727: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1728: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1729: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1730:
1.375 grunk 1731: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1732: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1733: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1734: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1735: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1736: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1737: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1738: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1739: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1740: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1741: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1742: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1743: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1744: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1745: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1746: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1747: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1748: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1750: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1751: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1752: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1753: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1754: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1755: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1756: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1757: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1758: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1759:
1.51 deraadt 1760: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1761: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1762: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1763: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1764: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1765: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1766: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1767: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1768: <p>
1769:
1.53 jakob 1770: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1771: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1772: meeting</a></strong>,
1773: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1774: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1775: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1776: <p>
1777:
1.132 louis 1778: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1779: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1780: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1781: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1782: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1783: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1784: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1785: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1786: <p>
1.236 jose 1787: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1788:
1.132 louis 1789: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1790:
1.236 jose 1791: <ul>
1.132 louis 1792: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1793: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1794: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1795: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1796: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1797: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1798: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1799: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1800: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1801: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1802: <p>
1803:
1.236 jose 1804: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1805: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1806: Conference</a></strong>,
1807: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1808: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1809: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1810: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1811: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1812: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1813: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1814: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1815: <br>
1816: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1817: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1818: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1819: <p>
1820:
1.73 deraadt 1821: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1822: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1823: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1824: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1825: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1826: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1827: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1828: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1829: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1830:
1.236 jose 1831: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1832: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1833: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1834: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1835: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1836: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1837: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1838: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1839:
1.80 deraadt 1840: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1841: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1842: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1843: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1844: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1845: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1846: <p>
1847:
1.93 louis 1848: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1849: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1850: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1851: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1852: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1853: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1854: <p>
1855:
1.216 jose 1856: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1857: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1858: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1859: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1860: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1861: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1862: <p>
1863:
1.236 jose 1864: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1865: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1866: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1867: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1868: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1869: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1870: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1871: <br>
1872: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1873: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1874: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1875: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1876: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1877:
1.236 jose 1878: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1879: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1880: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1881: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1882: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1883: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1884: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1885: <p>
1886:
1.236 jose 1887: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1888: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1889: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1890: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1891: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1892: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1893: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1894: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1895: <br>
1896: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1897: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1898: <p>
1899:
1.105 wvdputte 1900: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1901: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1902: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1903: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1904: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1905: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1906: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1907: <br>
1.132 louis 1908: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1909: <p>
1.236 jose 1910: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1911:
1.132 louis 1912: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1913:
1.236 jose 1914: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1915: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1917: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1918: Niels held a
1919: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1920: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1921: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1922: <p>
1.132 louis 1923:
1.236 jose 1924: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1925: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1926: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1927: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1928: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1929: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1930:
1.236 jose 1931: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1932: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1933: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1934: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1935: <br>
1936: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1937: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1938: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1939: <p>
1940:
1.125 deraadt 1941: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1942: <a
1943: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1944: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1945: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1946: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1947: </ul>
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