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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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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:
1.498 deraadt 45: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.497 deraadt 46: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
47: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
48: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
49: will be giving a talk and live demonstration on redundant failover
50: OpenBSD firewalls. He will explain why OpenBSD solves many problems that
51: had been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions. Attendees will
52: learn about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against bad
53: licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
54: <p>
55:
1.499 wvdputte 56: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
57: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
58: </strong>,
59: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
60: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
61: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address. (note: only first day of the event)
62: <p>
63:
1.487 bernd 64: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
65: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
66: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
1.497 deraadt 67: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.487 bernd 68: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
69: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
70: <p>
1.491 bernd 71:
72: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
73: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
74: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
75: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
76: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
77: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 78:
79: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"</a>
80: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>
1.504 ! miod 81: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, Venice Gateway for Science and Technology (VEGA),
1.502 mbalmer 82: Venice/Mestre, Italy<br>
83: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will
1.503 aanriot 84: be talks by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.502 mbalmer 85: Wim and the usual suspects.
86: <p>
87:
1.236 jose 88: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 89:
1.152 jakob 90: <hr>
91:
92: <h2>Past events:</h2>
93:
1.455 grunk 94: <h3>2006</h3>
95: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 96:
1.502 mbalmer 97: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
98: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
99: </strong>
100: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
101: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
102: entrance and all donations went straigth to the project. Several
103: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
104: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
108: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
109: </strong>,
110: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
111: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
112: <p>
113:
1.500 deraadt 114: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
115: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
116: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 ! miod 117: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
! 118: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 119: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
120: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
121: <p>
122:
1.491 bernd 123: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
124: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
125: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
126: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
127: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
128: PF tutorial</a>.
129: <p>
130:
1.490 reyk 131: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
132: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
133: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
134: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
135: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
136: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
137: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
138: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
139: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
140: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
141: <p>
142:
1.489 bernd 143: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
144: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
145: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
146: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
147: the overall system and its great features.
148: <p>
149:
1.484 mbalmer 150: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
151: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
152: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
153: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
154: <ul>
155: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
156: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 157: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 158: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
159: distributions...
160: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
161: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 162: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 163: infrastructure.
164: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
165: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
166: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
167: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
168: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
169: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
170: </ul>
171: <br>
172: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 173: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 174: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
175: <br>
176: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
177: usual suspects.
178: <p>
179:
180: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
181: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
182: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
183: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
184: <p>
185:
1.486 mickey 186: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
187: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
188: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
189: Mickey gave a talk
190: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
191: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
192: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
193: <p>
194:
1.484 mbalmer 195: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
196: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
197: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
198: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
199: talk. There is a
200: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
201: <p>
202:
1.478 mbalmer 203: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
204: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
205: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
206: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
207: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
208: well received.
209: <br>
210: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
211: and we could draw a lot of attention.
212: <p>
213:
1.479 deraadt 214: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
215: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
216: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
217: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 218: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
219: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
220: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 221: only).
222: <p>
223:
1.475 deraadt 224: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
225: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
226: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
227: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
228: Jason Dixon presented
229: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
230: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
231: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
232: <br>
233: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
234: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
238: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
239: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
240: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
241: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
242: <br>
243: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
244: on sale.
245: <p>
246:
1.469 tom 247: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
248: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
249: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
250: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
251: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
252: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
253: Peter N. M. Hansteen
254: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
255: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
256: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
257: drivers for OpenBSD".
258: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
259: <p>
260:
1.459 henning 261: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
262: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
263: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
264: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
265: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
266: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
267: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
268: <p>
269:
1.457 wvdputte 270: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
271: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
272: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
273: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 274: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 275: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
276: BSD dinner. More details and
277: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 278: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 279: <p>
280:
281: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
282: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
283: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
284: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
285: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
286: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
287: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
288: <p>
1.455 grunk 289:
1.456 henning 290: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
291: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
292: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
293: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
294: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
295: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
296: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
297: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
298: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
299: <p>
300:
1.455 grunk 301: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
302: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
303: </strong>,
304: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
305: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
306: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
307: <p>
308: </ul>
309:
1.296 mcbride 310: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 311:
312: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 313:
1.445 martin 314: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
315: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
316: Berlin</a></strong>,
317: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
318: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
319: <p>
320:
1.435 matthieu 321: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
322: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
323: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
324: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
325: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 326: event.
1.444 grunk 327: The program included a
328: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 329: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
330: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 331: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
332: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 333: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 334: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 335: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 336: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 337: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 338: <p>
1.435 matthieu 339: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
340: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
341: <p>
342:
1.434 bernd 343: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
344: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
345: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
346: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
347: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
348: <p>
349:
1.441 niallo 350: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
351: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
352: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
353: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
354: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
355: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
356: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
357: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
358: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
359: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
360: scripts.
361: <p>
362:
1.424 mbalmer 363: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
364: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
365: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 366: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
367: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
368: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 369: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 370: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 371: talks, including
372: <ul>
373: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
374: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
375: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
376: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
377: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
378: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 379: <p>
380:
381: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
382: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
383: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 384: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 385: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
386: <p>
387:
1.418 djm 388: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
389: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
390: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
391: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
392: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
393: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
394: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 395: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
396: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
397: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 398: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
399: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
400: <p>
401:
1.415 aanriot 402: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
403: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
404: 2005</a></strong>,
405: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
406: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
407: help of Thierry Thomas.
408: <p>
409:
1.420 deraadt 410: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
411: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
412: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
413: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
414: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
415: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
416: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
417: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
418: registration was mandatory.<br>
419: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 420: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 421: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
422: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
423: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 424: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 425: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
426: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
427: mechanism.
428: <p>
429:
1.414 bernd 430: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
431: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
432: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
433: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
434: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
435: <p>
436:
437: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
438: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
439: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
440: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
441: <p>
442:
1.410 wvdputte 443: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
444: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
445: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 446: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
447: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 448: <p>
449:
450: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
451: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
452: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
453: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 454: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 455: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
456: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
457: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
458: installed on your computer.
459: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 460: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 461: <p>
462:
1.404 wvdputte 463: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
464: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 465: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 466: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
467: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 468: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 469: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
470: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
471: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
472: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
473: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
474: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
475: <p>
476:
477: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
478: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
479: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
480: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
481: <p>
482:
1.403 henning 483: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
484: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 485: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 486: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
487: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
488: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
489: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
490: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
491: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
492: <p>
493:
1.388 tom 494: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
495: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
496: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 497: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 498: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
499: <p>
500:
1.385 mickey 501: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 502: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 503: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 504: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
505: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 506: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
507: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 508: and an excellent
509: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
510: If you want to see what happened previously, check
511: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
512: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
513: <p>
514:
1.382 pedro 515: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 516: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 517: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 518: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
519: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
520: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 521: <p>
522:
1.378 aanriot 523: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
524: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 525: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 526: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
527: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
528: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
529: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 530: <p>
531:
1.375 grunk 532: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
533: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 534: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 535: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
536: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
537: <p>
538:
1.374 grunk 539: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
540: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 541: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 542: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
543: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
544: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
545: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
546: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
547: <p>
548:
1.371 deraadt 549: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
550: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 551: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 552: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
553: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
554: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
555: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
556: He demonstrated how companies can easily
557: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
558: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
559: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
560: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
561: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
562: <p>
563:
1.366 martin 564: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
565: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
566: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
567: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
568: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
569: CDs and shirts.
570: <p>
571:
1.365 mcbride 572: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
573: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
574: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
575: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
576: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
577: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
578: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
579: <br>
580: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
581: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
582: <p>
583:
1.362 reyk 584: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
585: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
586: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
587: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
588: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
589: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
590: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
591: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
592: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
593: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
594: <p>
595:
1.358 mcbride 596: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
597: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
598: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
599: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
600: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
601: <p>
602:
1.357 henning 603: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
604: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
605: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
606: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
607: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
608: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
609: <p>
610:
1.384 tom 611: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 612: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 613: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 614: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
615: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
616: packages work in front of about 30 people.
617: <p>
618:
1.353 henning 619: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
620: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 621: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 622: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
623: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
624: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
625: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 626: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 627: <p>
628:
1.352 henning 629: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
630: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 631: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 632: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
633: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
634: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
635: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
636: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
637: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
638: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
639: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
640: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
641: available if you couldn't make it there.
642: <p>
643:
1.350 marius 644: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
645:
646: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 647: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 648: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
649: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
650: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
651: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
652: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 653: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 654: <p>
655:
1.345 henning 656: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
657: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 658: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 659: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
660: <p>
661:
1.344 martin 662: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
663: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 664: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 665: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
666: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
667: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
668: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
669: (in French) are available.
670: <p>
671:
1.337 deraadt 672: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
673: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 674: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 675: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
676: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 677: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 678: source firewalls.
679: <p>
680:
1.317 henning 681: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
682: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
683: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 684: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 685: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 686: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 687: <p>
688:
1.312 deraadt 689: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
690: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
691: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 692: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
693: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 694: <p>
695:
1.319 saad 696: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
697: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
698: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
699: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
700: <p>
701:
1.310 mickey 702: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 703: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 704: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 705: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 706: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
707: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 708: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 709: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 710: <p>
1.312 deraadt 711:
1.308 deraadt 712: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
713: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
714: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
715: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 716: talks. Topics included
717: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 718: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
719: OpenBGPD, and pf.
720: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 721: <p>
722:
1.304 saad 723: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
724: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
725: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
726: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
727: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 728: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 729: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 730: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
731: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 732: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 733: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
734: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
735: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 736: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 737: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
738: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
739: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
740: <p>
1.301 saad 741: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
742: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
743: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
744: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
745: <p>
746: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
747: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
748: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
749: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
750: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
751: <p>
1.293 saad 752: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
753: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
754: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
755: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
756: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
757: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 758: french translation team.<br>
759: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
760: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
761: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
762: available.<br>
763: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 764: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
765: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
766: <p>
1.296 mcbride 767: </ul>
1.293 saad 768:
1.296 mcbride 769: <h3>2004</h3>
770:
771: <ul>
1.287 henning 772: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
773: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 774: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 775: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
776: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
777: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 778: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 779: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
780: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
781: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
782: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
783: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
784: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 785: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 786: driver.
787: <p>
1.248 deraadt 788:
1.286 kevlo 789: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 790: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 791: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
792: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
793: <p>
794:
1.285 deraadt 795: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
796: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
797: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
798: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
799: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
800: <p>
801:
1.283 saad 802: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
803: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
804: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
805: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
806: meeting of the
807: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
808: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 809: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 810: <p>
811:
1.282 henning 812: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
813: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
814: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
815: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
816: two days, on bgpd
817: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
818: ntpd
819: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
820: and signal handlers
821: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
822: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
823: <p>
824:
1.275 deraadt 825: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
826: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
827: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
828: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
829: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
830: Room B-02 of the
831: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
832: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
833: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
834: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
835: The talk was also given the following day at the
836: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
837: <p>
838:
1.271 henning 839: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
840: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
841: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 842: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
843: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 844: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 845: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 846: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 847: <p>
848:
849: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
850: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
851: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 852: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
853: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 854: <p>
855:
1.276 deraadt 856: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 857: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
858: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
859: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
860: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
861: <p>
862:
863: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 864: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
865: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 866: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 867: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 868: <p>
869:
870: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
871: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
872: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
873: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
874: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
875: <p>
876:
1.268 krw 877: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
878: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
879: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
880: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
881: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
882: <p>
883:
1.375 grunk 884: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 885: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
886: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
887: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
888: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
892: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 893: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 894: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
895: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
896: <p>
897:
1.265 wvdputte 898: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
899: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 900: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 901: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
902: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
903: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
904: event."
905: <br>
906: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
907: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
908: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
909: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
910: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
911: <br>
912: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
913: <p>
914:
1.262 henning 915: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
916: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 917: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 918: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
919: Henning's slides from his talks about
920: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
921: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
922: are available.
923: <p>
924:
1.261 deraadt 925: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 926: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 927: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
928: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
929: newly extended version of the
930: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
931: For more information, see this
932: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
933: ComputerWorld article</a>.
934: <p>
935:
936:
1.257 saad 937: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
938: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 939: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 940: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
941: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
942: <p>
943:
944: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
945: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 946: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 947: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
948: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
949: <p>
950:
1.256 mickey 951: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 952: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 953: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
954: session.
955: <p>
956:
1.254 xsa 957: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 958: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 959: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
960: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
961: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
962: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
963: a basic talk about pf.
964: <p>
965:
1.248 deraadt 966: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 967: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 968: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
969: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 970: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
971: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
972: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 973: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
974: <p>
975:
1.247 canacar 976: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
977: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
978: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
979: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
980: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
981: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
982: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
983: projects were discussed.<br>
984: You can view the
1.281 canacar 985: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 986: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 987: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 988: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
989: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
990: <p>
991:
1.242 henning 992: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
993: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
994: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 995: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
996: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
997: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
998: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
999: and systrace
1.263 saad 1000: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1001: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1002: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1003: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1004: <p>
1005:
1.240 espie 1006: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1007: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1008: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1009: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1010: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1011: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1012: <p>
1013:
1014: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1015: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1016: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1017: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1018: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1019: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1020: <p>
1021: </ul>
1022:
1.188 henning 1023: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1024:
1025: <ul>
1.232 jose 1026: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1027: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1028: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1029: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1030: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1031: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1032: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1033: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1034: <p>
1.232 jose 1035:
1.228 jose 1036: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1037: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1038: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1039: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1040: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1041: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1042: with OpenBSD PF.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1046: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1047: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1048: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1049: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1050: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1051: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1052: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1053: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1054: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1055: slides in PDF format </a>
1056: (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 1057: <p>
1058:
1.227 jose 1059: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1061: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1062: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1063: <p>
1064:
1065: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1066: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1067: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1068: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1069: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1070: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1071: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1072: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1073: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1074: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1075: in Internet worm defenses.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.224 miod 1078: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1079: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1080: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1081: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1082: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1083: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1084: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1085: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1086: OpenBSD.
1087: <p>
1088:
1089: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1090: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1091: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1092: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1093: <p>
1094:
1095: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1096: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1097: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1098: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1099: <p>
1100:
1.219 jose 1101: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1102: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1103: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1104: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1105: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1106: <p>
1107:
1.218 jose 1108: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1109: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1110: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1111: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1112: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1113: <p>
1114:
1.214 henning 1115: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1116: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1117: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1118: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1119: <p>
1120:
1.213 jose 1121: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1122: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1123: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1124: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1125: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1126: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.211 jose 1129: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1130: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1131: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1132: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1133: <p>
1134:
1135: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1136: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1137: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1138: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1139: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.209 wvdputte 1142: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1143: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1144: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1145: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1146: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1147:
1.202 jason 1148: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1149: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1150: Conference</a></strong>,
1151: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1152: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1153: <ul>
1.216 jose 1154: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1155: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1156: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1157: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1158: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1159: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1160: </ul>
1161: <p>
1162:
1.201 deraadt 1163: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1164: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1165: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1166: session.
1167: <p>
1168:
1.216 jose 1169: <li><strong>
1170: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1171: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1172: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1173: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1174: <p>
1175:
1.216 jose 1176: <li><strong>
1177: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1178: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1179: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1180: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1181: <p>
1182:
1.216 jose 1183: <li><strong>
1184: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1185: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1186: 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 1187: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1188: <p>
1189:
1.216 jose 1190: <li><strong>
1191: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1192: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1193: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1194: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1195: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1196: user groups.
1197: <p>
1198:
1.236 jose 1199: <li><strong>
1200: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1201: Group</a></strong>,
1202: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1203: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1204: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1205: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1206: <p>
1207:
1.216 jose 1208: <li><strong>
1209: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1210: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1211: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1212: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1213: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1214: <p>
1215:
1.216 jose 1216: <li><strong>
1217: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1218: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1219: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1220: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1221: <p>
1.236 jose 1222: </ul>
1.185 miod 1223:
1.161 millert 1224: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1225:
1226: <ul>
1227: <li><strong>
1228: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1229: Congress</a></strong>,
1230: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1231: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1232: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1233: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1234: <p>
1.177 jason 1235:
1.216 jose 1236: <li><strong>
1237: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1238: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1239: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1240: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1241: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1242: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1243: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1244: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1245: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1246: <p>
1.178 pb 1247:
1.216 jose 1248: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1249: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1250: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1251: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1252: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1253: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1254: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1255: <p>
1256:
1.216 jose 1257: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1258: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1259: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1260: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1261: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1262: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1263: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1264: <p>
1265:
1266: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1267: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1268: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1269: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1270: Niels Provos presented his
1271: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1272: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1273: <p>
1.172 miod 1274:
1.216 jose 1275: <li><strong>
1276: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1277: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1278: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.216 jose 1281: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1282: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1283: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1284: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1285: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1286: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1287: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1288: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1289: <p>
1.168 miod 1290:
1.216 jose 1291: <li><strong>
1292: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1293: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1294: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1295: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1296: are available.
1.161 millert 1297: <p>
1298:
1.216 jose 1299: <li><strong>
1300: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1301: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1302: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1303: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1304: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1305: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1306: <p>
1307:
1.216 jose 1308: <li><strong>
1309: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1310: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1311: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1312: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1313: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1314: <p>
1.236 jose 1315: </ul>
1.164 millert 1316:
1.152 jakob 1317: <h3>2001</h3>
1318:
1.236 jose 1319: <ul>
1.216 jose 1320: <li><strong>
1321: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1322: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1323: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1324: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1325: <p>
1326:
1.216 jose 1327: <li><strong>
1328: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1329: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1330: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1331: <p>
1332:
1.158 deraadt 1333: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1334: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1335: 2001</a></strong>,
1336: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1337: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1338: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1339: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1340: <p>
1341:
1.216 jose 1342: <li><strong>
1343: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1344: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1345: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1346: <p>
1347:
1.201 deraadt 1348: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1349: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1350: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1351: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1352:
1.150 wvdputte 1353: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1354: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1355: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1356: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1357: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1358: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1359: <p>
1.137 aaron 1360:
1361: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1362: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1363: Conference</a></strong>,
1364: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1365: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1366: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1367: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1368: <p>
1369:
1370: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1371: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1372: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1373: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1374: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1378: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1379: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1380: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1381: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1382: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1383: <p>
1384:
1385: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1386: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1387: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1388: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1389: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1390: <p>
1391:
1392: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1393: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1394: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1395: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1396: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1397: security community.
1398: <p>
1399:
1400: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1401: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1402: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1403: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1404: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1405: <p>
1406:
1407: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1408: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1409: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1410: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1411: <p>
1.236 jose 1412: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1413:
1.132 louis 1414: <h3>2000</h3>
1415:
1.236 jose 1416: <ul>
1.132 louis 1417: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1418: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1419: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1420: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1421: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1422: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1423: <p>
1424:
1425: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1426: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1427: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1428: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1429: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1430: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1431: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1432: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1433: <p>
1434:
1435: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1436: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1437: 2000</a></strong>,
1438: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1439: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1440: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1441: <p>
1.4 millert 1442:
1.132 louis 1443: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1444: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1445: Summit</a></strong>,
1446: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1447: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1448: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1449: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1450:
1451: <ul>
1.236 jose 1452: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1453: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1454: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1455: </ul>
1.4 millert 1456: <p>
1.132 louis 1457:
1.7 deraadt 1458: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1459: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1460: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1461: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1462: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1463: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1464: mind (drinks afterwards).
1465: <p>
1466:
1.216 jose 1467: <li><strong>
1468: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1469: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1470: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1471: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1472: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1473:
1.132 louis 1474: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1475: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1476: Revolution</a></strong>,
1477: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1478: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1479: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1480: <p>
1481:
1.132 louis 1482: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1483: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1484: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1485: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1486: <ul>
1.236 jose 1487: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1488: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1489: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1490: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1491: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1492: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1493: <p>
1.132 louis 1494:
1.10 provos 1495: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1496: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1497: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1498: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1499: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1500: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1501: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1502: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1503: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1504: <br>
1505: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1506: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1507: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1508:
1.132 louis 1509: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1510: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1511: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1512: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1513: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1514: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1515: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1516: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1517: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1518: and spoke about
1519: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1520: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1521: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1522: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1523: <p>
1.132 louis 1524:
1.6 deraadt 1525: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1526: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1527: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1528: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1529: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1530: <br>
1531: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1532: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1533: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1534: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1535:
1.216 jose 1536: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1537: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1538: Conference.</a></strong>,
1539: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1540: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1541: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1542: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1543: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1544: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1545: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1546: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1547: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1548: <ul>
1549:
1550: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1551: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1552: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1553: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1554: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1555:
1556: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1557: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1558: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1559: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1560: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1561:
1.132 louis 1562: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1563: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1564: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1565: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1566: <p>
1567:
1.132 louis 1568: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1569: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1570: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1571: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1572: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1573: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1574: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1575: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1576:
1.132 louis 1577: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1578: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1579: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1580: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1581: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1582: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1583: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1584: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1585: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1586:
1.17 deraadt 1587: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1588: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1589: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1590: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1591: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1592: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1593: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1594: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1595: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1596:
1.23 niklas 1597: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1598: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1599: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1600: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1601: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1602: efforts.
1603: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1604: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1605: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1606: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1607: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1608: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1609:
1.132 louis 1610: <li><strong>
1611: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1612: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1613: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1614: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1615: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1616: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1617: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1618: <p>
1.23 niklas 1619:
1.31 deraadt 1620: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1621: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1622: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1623: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1624: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1625: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1626: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1627: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1628: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1629: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1630:
1.201 deraadt 1631: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1632: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1633: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1634: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1635: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1636: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1637: <p>
1.236 jose 1638: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1639:
1.132 louis 1640: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1641:
1.236 jose 1642: <ul>
1.216 jose 1643: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1644: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1645: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1646: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1647: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1648: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1649: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1650: <p>
1651:
1.216 jose 1652: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1653: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1654: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1655: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1656: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1657: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1658: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1659: There were many other OpenBSD
1660: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1661: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1662:
1663: <ul>
1664: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1665: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1666: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1668: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1669: </ul>
1670: <p>
1671:
1672: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1673: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1674: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1675: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1676: <p>
1677:
1678: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1679: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1680: Software '99</a></strong>,
1681: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1682: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1683: <a
1.375 grunk 1684: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1685: <p>
1686:
1687: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1689: 1999</a></strong>,
1690: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1691: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1692: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1693: <p>
1694:
1.236 jose 1695: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1696: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1697: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1698: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1699: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1700: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1701: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1702: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1703: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1704: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1705: conference in Stockholm.
1706: <p>
1707:
1708: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1709: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1710: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1711: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1712: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1713: coordinated.
1714: <p>
1715:
1716: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1717: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1718: Security</a></strong>,
1719: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1720: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1721: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1722: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1723: significant security roles.
1724: <p>
1725:
1726: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1727: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1728: meeting</a></strong>,
1729: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1730: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1731: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1732: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1733: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1734: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1735: <p>
1.45 jason 1736:
1.132 louis 1737: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1738: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1739: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1740: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1741: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1742: <p>
1.132 louis 1743:
1.236 jose 1744: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1745: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1746: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1747: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1748: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1749: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1750: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1751: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1752: June.)
1.132 louis 1753: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1754: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1755: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1756:
1.375 grunk 1757: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1758: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1759: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1760: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1761: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1763: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1764: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1765: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1766: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1767: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1768: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1769: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1770: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1771: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1772: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1773: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1774: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1775: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1776: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1777: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1778: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1779: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1780: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1781: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1782: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1783: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1784: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1785:
1.51 deraadt 1786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1787: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1788: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1789: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1790: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1791: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1792: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1793: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1794: <p>
1795:
1.53 jakob 1796: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1797: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1798: meeting</a></strong>,
1799: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1800: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1801: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1802: <p>
1803:
1.132 louis 1804: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1805: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1806: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1807: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1808: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1809: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1810: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1811: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1812: <p>
1.236 jose 1813: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1814:
1.132 louis 1815: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1816:
1.236 jose 1817: <ul>
1.132 louis 1818: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1819: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1820: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1821: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1822: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1823: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1824: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1825: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1826: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1827: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1828: <p>
1829:
1.236 jose 1830: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1831: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1832: Conference</a></strong>,
1833: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1834: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1835: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1836: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1837: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1838: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1839: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1840: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1841: <br>
1842: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1843: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1844: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1845: <p>
1846:
1.73 deraadt 1847: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1848: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1849: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1850: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1851: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1852: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1853: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1854: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1855: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1856:
1.236 jose 1857: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1858: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1859: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1860: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1861: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1862: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1863: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1864: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1865:
1.80 deraadt 1866: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1867: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1868: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1869: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1870: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1871: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1872: <p>
1873:
1.93 louis 1874: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1875: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1876: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1877: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1878: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1879: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1880: <p>
1881:
1.216 jose 1882: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1883: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1884: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1885: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1886: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1887: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1888: <p>
1889:
1.236 jose 1890: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1891: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1892: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1893: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1894: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1895: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1896: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1897: <br>
1898: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1899: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1900: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1901: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1902: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1903:
1.236 jose 1904: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1905: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1906: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1907: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1908: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1909: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1910: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1911: <p>
1912:
1.236 jose 1913: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1914: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1915: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1916: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1917: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1918: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1919: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1920: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1921: <br>
1922: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1923: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1924: <p>
1925:
1.105 wvdputte 1926: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1927: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1928: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1929: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1930: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1931: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1932: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1933: <br>
1.132 louis 1934: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1935: <p>
1.236 jose 1936: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1937:
1.132 louis 1938: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1939:
1.236 jose 1940: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1941: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1942: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1943: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1944: Niels held a
1945: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1946: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1947: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1948: <p>
1.132 louis 1949:
1.236 jose 1950: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1951: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1952: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1953: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1954: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1955: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1956:
1.236 jose 1957: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1958: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1959: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1960: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1961: <br>
1962: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1963: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1964: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1965: <p>
1966:
1.125 deraadt 1967: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1968: <a
1969: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1970: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1971: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1972: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1973: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1974:
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