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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:
1.446 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
1.499 wvdputte 46: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
47: </strong>,
1.497 deraadt 48: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1.446 wvdputte 49: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
50: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
51: <p>
52:
1.498 deraadt 53: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.497 deraadt 54: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
55: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
56: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
57: will be giving a talk and live demonstration on redundant failover
58: OpenBSD firewalls. He will explain why OpenBSD solves many problems that
59: had been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions. Attendees will
60: learn about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against bad
61: licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
62: <p>
63:
1.499 wvdputte 64: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
65: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
66: </strong>,
67: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
68: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
69: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address. (note: only first day of the event)
70: <p>
71:
1.487 bernd 72: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
73: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
74: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
1.497 deraadt 75: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.487 bernd 76: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
77: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
78: <p>
1.491 bernd 79:
80: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
81: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
82: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
83: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
84: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
85: <p>
1.236 jose 86: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 87:
1.152 jakob 88: <hr>
89:
90: <h2>Past events:</h2>
91:
1.455 grunk 92: <h3>2006</h3>
93: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 94:
1.500 ! deraadt 95: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
! 96: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
! 97: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
! 98: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future nuetworkingd
! 99: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
! 100: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
! 101: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
! 102: <p>
! 103:
1.491 bernd 104: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
105: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
106: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
107: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
108: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
109: PF tutorial</a>.
110: <p>
111:
1.490 reyk 112: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
113: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
114: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
115: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
116: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
117: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
118: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
119: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
120: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
121: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
122: <p>
123:
1.489 bernd 124: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
125: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
126: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
127: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
128: the overall system and its great features.
129: <p>
130:
1.484 mbalmer 131: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
132: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
133: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
134: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
135: <ul>
136: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
137: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 138: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 139: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
140: distributions...
141: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
142: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 143: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 144: infrastructure.
145: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
146: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
147: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
148: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
149: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
150: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
151: </ul>
152: <br>
153: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 154: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 155: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
156: <br>
157: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
158: usual suspects.
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
162: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
163: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
164: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
165: <p>
166:
1.486 mickey 167: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
168: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
169: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
170: Mickey gave a talk
171: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
172: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
173: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
174: <p>
175:
1.484 mbalmer 176: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
178: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
179: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
180: talk. There is a
181: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
182: <p>
183:
1.478 mbalmer 184: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
185: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
186: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
187: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
188: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
189: well received.
190: <br>
191: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
192: and we could draw a lot of attention.
193: <p>
194:
1.479 deraadt 195: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
196: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
197: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
198: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 199: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
200: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
201: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 202: only).
203: <p>
204:
1.475 deraadt 205: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
206: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
207: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
208: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
209: Jason Dixon presented
210: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
211: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
212: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
213: <br>
214: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
215: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
219: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
220: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
221: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
222: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
223: <br>
224: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
225: on sale.
226: <p>
227:
1.469 tom 228: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
229: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
230: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
231: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
232: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
233: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
234: Peter N. M. Hansteen
235: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
236: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
237: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
238: drivers for OpenBSD".
239: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
240: <p>
241:
1.459 henning 242: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
243: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
244: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
245: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
246: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
247: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
248: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
249: <p>
250:
1.457 wvdputte 251: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
252: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
253: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
254: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 255: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 256: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
257: BSD dinner. More details and
258: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 259: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 260: <p>
261:
262: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
263: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
264: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
265: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
266: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
267: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
268: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
269: <p>
1.455 grunk 270:
1.456 henning 271: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
272: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
273: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
274: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
275: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
276: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
277: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
278: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
279: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
280: <p>
281:
1.455 grunk 282: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
283: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
284: </strong>,
285: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
286: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
287: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
288: <p>
289: </ul>
290:
1.296 mcbride 291: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 292:
293: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 294:
1.445 martin 295: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
296: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
297: Berlin</a></strong>,
298: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
299: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
300: <p>
301:
1.435 matthieu 302: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
303: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
304: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
305: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
306: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 307: event.
1.444 grunk 308: The program included a
309: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 310: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
311: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 312: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
313: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 314: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 315: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 316: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 317: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 318: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 319: <p>
1.435 matthieu 320: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
321: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
322: <p>
323:
1.434 bernd 324: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
325: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
326: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
327: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
328: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
329: <p>
330:
1.441 niallo 331: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
332: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
333: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
334: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
335: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
336: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
337: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
338: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
339: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
340: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
341: scripts.
342: <p>
343:
1.424 mbalmer 344: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
345: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
346: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 347: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
348: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
349: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 350: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 351: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 352: talks, including
353: <ul>
354: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
355: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
356: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
357: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
358: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
359: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 360: <p>
361:
362: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
363: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
364: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 365: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 366: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
367: <p>
368:
1.418 djm 369: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
370: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
371: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
372: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
373: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
374: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
375: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 376: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
377: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
378: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 379: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
380: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
381: <p>
382:
1.415 aanriot 383: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
384: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
385: 2005</a></strong>,
386: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
387: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
388: help of Thierry Thomas.
389: <p>
390:
1.420 deraadt 391: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
392: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
393: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
394: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
395: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
396: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
397: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
398: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
399: registration was mandatory.<br>
400: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 401: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 402: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
403: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
404: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 405: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 406: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
407: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
408: mechanism.
409: <p>
410:
1.414 bernd 411: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
412: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
413: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
414: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
415: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
416: <p>
417:
418: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
419: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
420: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
421: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
422: <p>
423:
1.410 wvdputte 424: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
425: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
426: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 427: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
428: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 429: <p>
430:
431: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
432: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
433: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
434: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 435: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 436: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
437: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
438: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
439: installed on your computer.
440: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 441: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 442: <p>
443:
1.404 wvdputte 444: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
445: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 446: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 447: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
448: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 449: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 450: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
451: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
452: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
453: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
454: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
455: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
456: <p>
457:
458: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
459: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
460: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
461: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
462: <p>
463:
1.403 henning 464: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
465: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 466: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 467: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
468: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
469: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
470: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
471: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
472: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
473: <p>
474:
1.388 tom 475: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
476: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
477: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 478: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 479: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
480: <p>
481:
1.385 mickey 482: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 483: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 484: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 485: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
486: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 487: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
488: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 489: and an excellent
490: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
491: If you want to see what happened previously, check
492: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
493: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
494: <p>
495:
1.382 pedro 496: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 497: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 498: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 499: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
500: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
501: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 502: <p>
503:
1.378 aanriot 504: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
505: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 506: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 507: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
508: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
509: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
510: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 511: <p>
512:
1.375 grunk 513: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
514: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 515: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 516: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
517: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
518: <p>
519:
1.374 grunk 520: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
521: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 522: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 523: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
524: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
525: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
526: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
527: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
528: <p>
529:
1.371 deraadt 530: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
531: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 532: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 533: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
534: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
535: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
536: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
537: He demonstrated how companies can easily
538: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
539: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
540: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
541: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
542: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
543: <p>
544:
1.366 martin 545: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
546: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
547: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
548: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
549: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
550: CDs and shirts.
551: <p>
552:
1.365 mcbride 553: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
554: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
555: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
556: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
557: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
558: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
559: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
560: <br>
561: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
562: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
563: <p>
564:
1.362 reyk 565: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
566: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
567: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
568: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
569: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
570: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
571: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
572: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
573: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
574: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
575: <p>
576:
1.358 mcbride 577: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
578: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
579: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
580: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
581: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
582: <p>
583:
1.357 henning 584: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
585: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
586: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
587: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
588: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
589: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
590: <p>
591:
1.384 tom 592: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 593: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 594: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 595: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
596: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
597: packages work in front of about 30 people.
598: <p>
599:
1.353 henning 600: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
601: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 602: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 603: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
604: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
605: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
606: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 607: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 608: <p>
609:
1.352 henning 610: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
611: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 612: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 613: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
614: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
615: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
616: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
617: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
618: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
619: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
620: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
621: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
622: available if you couldn't make it there.
623: <p>
624:
1.350 marius 625: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
626:
627: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 628: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 629: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
630: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
631: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
632: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
633: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 634: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 635: <p>
636:
1.345 henning 637: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
638: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 639: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 640: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
641: <p>
642:
1.344 martin 643: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
644: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 645: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 646: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
647: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
648: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
649: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
650: (in French) are available.
651: <p>
652:
1.337 deraadt 653: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
654: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 655: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 656: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
657: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 658: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 659: source firewalls.
660: <p>
661:
1.317 henning 662: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
663: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
664: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 665: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 666: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 667: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 668: <p>
669:
1.312 deraadt 670: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
671: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
672: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 673: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
674: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 675: <p>
676:
1.319 saad 677: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
678: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
679: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
680: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
681: <p>
682:
1.310 mickey 683: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 684: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 685: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 686: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 687: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
688: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 689: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 690: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 691: <p>
1.312 deraadt 692:
1.308 deraadt 693: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
694: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
695: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
696: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 697: talks. Topics included
698: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 699: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
700: OpenBGPD, and pf.
701: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 702: <p>
703:
1.304 saad 704: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
705: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
706: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
707: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
708: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 709: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 710: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 711: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
712: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 713: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 714: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
715: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
716: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 717: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 718: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
719: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
720: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
721: <p>
1.301 saad 722: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
723: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
724: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
725: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
726: <p>
727: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
728: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
729: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
730: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
731: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
732: <p>
1.293 saad 733: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
734: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
735: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
736: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
737: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
738: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 739: french translation team.<br>
740: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
741: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
742: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
743: available.<br>
744: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 745: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
746: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
747: <p>
1.296 mcbride 748: </ul>
1.293 saad 749:
1.296 mcbride 750: <h3>2004</h3>
751:
752: <ul>
1.287 henning 753: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
754: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 755: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 756: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
757: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
758: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 759: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 760: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
761: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
762: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
763: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
764: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
765: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 766: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 767: driver.
768: <p>
1.248 deraadt 769:
1.286 kevlo 770: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 771: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 772: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
773: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
774: <p>
775:
1.285 deraadt 776: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
777: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
778: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
779: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
780: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
781: <p>
782:
1.283 saad 783: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
784: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
785: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
786: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
787: meeting of the
788: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
789: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 790: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 791: <p>
792:
1.282 henning 793: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
794: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
795: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
796: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
797: two days, on bgpd
798: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
799: ntpd
800: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
801: and signal handlers
802: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
803: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
804: <p>
805:
1.275 deraadt 806: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
807: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
808: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
809: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
810: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
811: Room B-02 of the
812: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
813: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
814: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
815: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
816: The talk was also given the following day at the
817: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
818: <p>
819:
1.271 henning 820: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
821: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
822: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 823: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
824: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 825: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 826: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 827: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 828: <p>
829:
830: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
831: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
832: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 833: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
834: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 835: <p>
836:
1.276 deraadt 837: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 838: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
839: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
840: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
841: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
842: <p>
843:
844: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 845: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
846: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 847: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 848: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 849: <p>
850:
851: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
852: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
853: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
854: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
855: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
856: <p>
857:
1.268 krw 858: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
859: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
860: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
861: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
862: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
863: <p>
864:
1.375 grunk 865: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 866: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
867: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
868: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
869: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
870: <p>
871:
872: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
873: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 874: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 875: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
876: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
877: <p>
878:
1.265 wvdputte 879: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
880: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 881: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 882: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
883: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
884: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
885: event."
886: <br>
887: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
888: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
889: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
890: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
891: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
892: <br>
893: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
894: <p>
895:
1.262 henning 896: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
897: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 898: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 899: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
900: Henning's slides from his talks about
901: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
902: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
903: are available.
904: <p>
905:
1.261 deraadt 906: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 907: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 908: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
909: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
910: newly extended version of the
911: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
912: For more information, see this
913: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
914: ComputerWorld article</a>.
915: <p>
916:
917:
1.257 saad 918: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
919: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 920: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<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:
925: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
926: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 927: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 928: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
929: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
930: <p>
931:
1.256 mickey 932: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 933: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 934: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
935: session.
936: <p>
937:
1.254 xsa 938: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 939: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 940: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
941: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
942: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
943: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
944: a basic talk about pf.
945: <p>
946:
1.248 deraadt 947: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 948: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 949: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
950: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 951: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
952: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
953: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 954: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
955: <p>
956:
1.247 canacar 957: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
958: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
959: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
960: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
961: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
962: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
963: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
964: projects were discussed.<br>
965: You can view the
1.281 canacar 966: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 967: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 968: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 969: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
970: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
971: <p>
972:
1.242 henning 973: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
974: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
975: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 976: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
977: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
978: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
979: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
980: and systrace
1.263 saad 981: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 982: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
983: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
984: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 985: <p>
986:
1.240 espie 987: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
988: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
989: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
990: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
991: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
992: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
993: <p>
994:
995: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
996: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
997: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 998: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 999: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1000: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1001: <p>
1002: </ul>
1003:
1.188 henning 1004: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1005:
1006: <ul>
1.232 jose 1007: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1008: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1009: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1010: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1011: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1012: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1013: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1014: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1015: <p>
1.232 jose 1016:
1.228 jose 1017: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1018: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1019: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1020: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1021: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1022: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1023: with OpenBSD PF.
1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1027: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1028: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1029: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1030: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1031: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1032: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1033: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1034: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1035: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1036: slides in PDF format </a>
1037: (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 1038: <p>
1039:
1.227 jose 1040: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1042: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1043: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1044: <p>
1045:
1046: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1047: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1048: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1049: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1050: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1051: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1052: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1053: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1054: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1055: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1056: in Internet worm defenses.
1057: <p>
1058:
1.224 miod 1059: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1061: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1062: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1063: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1064: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1065: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1066: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1067: OpenBSD.
1068: <p>
1069:
1070: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1071: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1072: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1073: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1074: <p>
1075:
1076: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1077: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1078: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1079: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1080: <p>
1081:
1.219 jose 1082: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1083: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1084: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1085: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1086: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.218 jose 1089: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1090: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1091: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1092: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1093: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1094: <p>
1095:
1.214 henning 1096: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1097: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1098: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1099: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1100: <p>
1101:
1.213 jose 1102: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1103: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1104: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1105: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1106: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1107: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1108: <p>
1109:
1.211 jose 1110: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1111: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1112: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1113: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1114: <p>
1115:
1116: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1117: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1118: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1119: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1120: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1121: <p>
1122:
1.209 wvdputte 1123: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1124: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1125: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1126: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1127: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1128:
1.202 jason 1129: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1130: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1131: Conference</a></strong>,
1132: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1133: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1134: <ul>
1.216 jose 1135: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1136: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1137: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1138: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1139: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1140: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1141: </ul>
1142: <p>
1143:
1.201 deraadt 1144: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1145: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1146: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1147: session.
1148: <p>
1149:
1.216 jose 1150: <li><strong>
1151: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1152: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1153: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1154: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1155: <p>
1156:
1.216 jose 1157: <li><strong>
1158: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1159: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1160: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1161: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1162: <p>
1163:
1.216 jose 1164: <li><strong>
1165: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1166: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1167: 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 1168: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1169: <p>
1170:
1.216 jose 1171: <li><strong>
1172: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1173: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1174: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1175: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1176: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1177: user groups.
1178: <p>
1179:
1.236 jose 1180: <li><strong>
1181: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1182: Group</a></strong>,
1183: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1184: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1185: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1186: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1187: <p>
1188:
1.216 jose 1189: <li><strong>
1190: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1191: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1192: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1193: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1194: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.216 jose 1197: <li><strong>
1198: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1199: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1200: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1201: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1202: <p>
1.236 jose 1203: </ul>
1.185 miod 1204:
1.161 millert 1205: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1206:
1207: <ul>
1208: <li><strong>
1209: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1210: Congress</a></strong>,
1211: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1212: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1213: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1214: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1215: <p>
1.177 jason 1216:
1.216 jose 1217: <li><strong>
1218: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1219: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1220: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1221: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1222: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1223: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1224: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1225: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1226: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1227: <p>
1.178 pb 1228:
1.216 jose 1229: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1230: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1231: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1232: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1233: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1234: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1235: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1236: <p>
1237:
1.216 jose 1238: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1239: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1240: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1241: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1242: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1243: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1244: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1248: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1249: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1250: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1251: Niels Provos presented his
1252: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1253: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1254: <p>
1.172 miod 1255:
1.216 jose 1256: <li><strong>
1257: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1258: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1259: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1260: <p>
1261:
1.216 jose 1262: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1263: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1264: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1265: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1266: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1267: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1268: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1269: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1270: <p>
1.168 miod 1271:
1.216 jose 1272: <li><strong>
1273: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1274: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1275: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1276: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1277: are available.
1.161 millert 1278: <p>
1279:
1.216 jose 1280: <li><strong>
1281: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1282: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1283: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1284: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1285: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1286: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1287: <p>
1288:
1.216 jose 1289: <li><strong>
1290: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1291: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1292: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1293: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1294: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1295: <p>
1.236 jose 1296: </ul>
1.164 millert 1297:
1.152 jakob 1298: <h3>2001</h3>
1299:
1.236 jose 1300: <ul>
1.216 jose 1301: <li><strong>
1302: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1303: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1304: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1305: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1306: <p>
1307:
1.216 jose 1308: <li><strong>
1309: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1310: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1311: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1312: <p>
1313:
1.158 deraadt 1314: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1315: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1316: 2001</a></strong>,
1317: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1318: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1319: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1320: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1321: <p>
1322:
1.216 jose 1323: <li><strong>
1324: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1325: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1326: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1327: <p>
1328:
1.201 deraadt 1329: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1330: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1331: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1332: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1333:
1.150 wvdputte 1334: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1335: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1336: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1337: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1338: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1339: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1340: <p>
1.137 aaron 1341:
1342: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1343: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1344: Conference</a></strong>,
1345: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1346: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1347: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1348: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1349: <p>
1350:
1351: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1352: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1353: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1354: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1355: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1356: <p>
1357:
1358: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1359: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1360: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1361: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1362: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1363: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1364: <p>
1365:
1366: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1367: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1368: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1369: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1370: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1371: <p>
1372:
1373: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1374: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1375: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1376: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1377: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1378: security community.
1379: <p>
1380:
1381: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1382: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1383: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1384: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1385: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1386: <p>
1387:
1388: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1389: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1390: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1391: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1392: <p>
1.236 jose 1393: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1394:
1.132 louis 1395: <h3>2000</h3>
1396:
1.236 jose 1397: <ul>
1.132 louis 1398: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1399: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1400: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1401: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1402: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1403: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1407: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1408: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1409: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1410: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1411: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1412: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1413: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1414: <p>
1415:
1416: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1417: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1418: 2000</a></strong>,
1419: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1420: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1421: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1422: <p>
1.4 millert 1423:
1.132 louis 1424: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1425: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1426: Summit</a></strong>,
1427: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1428: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1429: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1430: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1431:
1432: <ul>
1.236 jose 1433: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1434: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1435: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1436: </ul>
1.4 millert 1437: <p>
1.132 louis 1438:
1.7 deraadt 1439: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1440: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1441: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1442: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1443: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1444: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1445: mind (drinks afterwards).
1446: <p>
1447:
1.216 jose 1448: <li><strong>
1449: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1450: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1451: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1452: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1453: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1454:
1.132 louis 1455: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1456: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1457: Revolution</a></strong>,
1458: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1459: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1460: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1461: <p>
1462:
1.132 louis 1463: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1464: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1465: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1466: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1467: <ul>
1.236 jose 1468: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1469: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1470: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1471: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1472: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1473: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1474: <p>
1.132 louis 1475:
1.10 provos 1476: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1477: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1478: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1479: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1480: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1481: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1482: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1483: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1484: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1485: <br>
1486: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1487: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1488: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1489:
1.132 louis 1490: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1491: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1492: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1493: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1494: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1495: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1496: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1497: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1498: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1499: and spoke about
1500: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1501: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1502: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1503: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1504: <p>
1.132 louis 1505:
1.6 deraadt 1506: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1507: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1508: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1509: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1510: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1511: <br>
1512: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1513: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1514: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1515: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1516:
1.216 jose 1517: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1518: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1519: Conference.</a></strong>,
1520: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1521: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1522: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1523: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1524: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1525: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1526: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1527: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1528: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1529: <ul>
1530:
1531: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1532: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1533: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1534: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1535: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1536:
1537: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1538: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1539: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1540: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1541: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1542:
1.132 louis 1543: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1544: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1545: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1546: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1547: <p>
1548:
1.132 louis 1549: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1550: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1551: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1552: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1553: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1554: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1555: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1556: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1557:
1.132 louis 1558: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1559: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1560: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1561: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1562: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1563: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1564: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1565: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1566: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1567:
1.17 deraadt 1568: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1569: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1570: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1571: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1572: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1573: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1574: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1575: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1576: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1577:
1.23 niklas 1578: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1579: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1580: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1581: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1582: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1583: efforts.
1584: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1585: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1586: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1587: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1588: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1589: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1590:
1.132 louis 1591: <li><strong>
1592: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1593: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1594: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1595: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1596: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1597: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1598: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1599: <p>
1.23 niklas 1600:
1.31 deraadt 1601: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1603: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1604: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1605: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1606: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1607: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1608: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1609: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1610: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1611:
1.201 deraadt 1612: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1613: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1614: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1615: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1616: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1617: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1618: <p>
1.236 jose 1619: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1620:
1.132 louis 1621: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1622:
1.236 jose 1623: <ul>
1.216 jose 1624: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1625: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1626: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1627: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1628: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1629: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1630: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1631: <p>
1632:
1.216 jose 1633: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1634: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1635: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1636: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1637: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1638: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1639: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1640: There were many other OpenBSD
1641: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1642: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1643:
1644: <ul>
1645: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1646: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1647: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1648: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1649: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1650: </ul>
1651: <p>
1652:
1653: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1654: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1655: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1656: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1657: <p>
1658:
1659: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1660: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1661: Software '99</a></strong>,
1662: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1663: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1664: <a
1.375 grunk 1665: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1666: <p>
1667:
1668: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1670: 1999</a></strong>,
1671: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1672: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1673: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1674: <p>
1675:
1.236 jose 1676: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1677: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1678: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1679: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1680: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1681: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1682: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1683: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1684: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1685: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1686: conference in Stockholm.
1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1690: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1691: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1692: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1693: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1694: coordinated.
1695: <p>
1696:
1697: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1698: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1699: Security</a></strong>,
1700: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1701: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1702: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1703: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1704: significant security roles.
1705: <p>
1706:
1707: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1708: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1709: meeting</a></strong>,
1710: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1711: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1712: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1713: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1714: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1715: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1716: <p>
1.45 jason 1717:
1.132 louis 1718: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1719: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1720: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1721: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1722: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1723: <p>
1.132 louis 1724:
1.236 jose 1725: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1726: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1727: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1728: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1729: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1730: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1731: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1732: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1733: June.)
1.132 louis 1734: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1735: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1736: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1737:
1.375 grunk 1738: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1739: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1740: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1741: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1742: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1743: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1744: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1745: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1746: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1747: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1748: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1750: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1751: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1752: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1753: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1754: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1755: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1756: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1757: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1758: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1759: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1760: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1761: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1763: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1764: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1765: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1766:
1.51 deraadt 1767: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1768: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1769: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1770: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1771: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1772: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1773: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1774: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1775: <p>
1776:
1.53 jakob 1777: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1778: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1779: meeting</a></strong>,
1780: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1781: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1782: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1783: <p>
1784:
1.132 louis 1785: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1786: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1787: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1788: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1789: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1790: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1791: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1792: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1793: <p>
1.236 jose 1794: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1795:
1.132 louis 1796: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1797:
1.236 jose 1798: <ul>
1.132 louis 1799: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1801: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1802: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1803: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1804: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1805: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1806: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1807: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1808: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1809: <p>
1810:
1.236 jose 1811: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1812: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1813: Conference</a></strong>,
1814: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1815: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1816: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1817: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1818: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1819: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1820: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1821: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1822: <br>
1823: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1824: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1825: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1826: <p>
1827:
1.73 deraadt 1828: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1829: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1830: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1831: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1832: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1833: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1834: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1835: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1836: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1837:
1.236 jose 1838: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1839: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1840: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1841: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1842: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1843: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1844: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1845: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1846:
1.80 deraadt 1847: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1848: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1849: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1850: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1851: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1852: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1853: <p>
1854:
1.93 louis 1855: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1856: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1857: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1858: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1859: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1860: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1861: <p>
1862:
1.216 jose 1863: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1864: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1865: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1866: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1867: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1868: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1869: <p>
1870:
1.236 jose 1871: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1872: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1873: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1874: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1875: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1876: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1877: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1878: <br>
1879: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1880: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1881: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1882: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1883: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1884:
1.236 jose 1885: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1886: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1887: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1888: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1889: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1890: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1891: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1892: <p>
1893:
1.236 jose 1894: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1895: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1896: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1897: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1898: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1899: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1900: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1901: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1902: <br>
1903: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1904: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1905: <p>
1906:
1.105 wvdputte 1907: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1908: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1909: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1910: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1911: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1912: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1913: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1914: <br>
1.132 louis 1915: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1916: <p>
1.236 jose 1917: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1918:
1.132 louis 1919: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1920:
1.236 jose 1921: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1922: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1923: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1924: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1925: Niels held a
1926: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1927: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1928: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1929: <p>
1.132 louis 1930:
1.236 jose 1931: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1932: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1933: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1934: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1935: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1936: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1937:
1.236 jose 1938: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1939: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1940: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1941: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1942: <br>
1943: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1944: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1946: <p>
1947:
1.125 deraadt 1948: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1949: <a
1950: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1951: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1952: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1953: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1954: </ul>
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