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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.445 martin 41: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 42:
43: <ul>
1.346 marius 44:
1.499 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
46: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
47: </strong>,
48: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
49: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
50: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address. (note: only first day of the event)
51: <p>
52:
1.487 bernd 53: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
54: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
55: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
1.497 deraadt 56: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.487 bernd 57: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
58: Boothslaves volunteer at the normal address.
59: <p>
1.491 bernd 60:
61: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
62: <a href="http://2006.rencontresmondiales.org/home/?lang=en_GB">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
63: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
64: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
65: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot and Alexandre Anriot.
66: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 67:
68: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"</a>
69: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>
1.504 miod 70: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, Venice Gateway for Science and Technology (VEGA),
1.502 mbalmer 71: Venice/Mestre, Italy<br>
72: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will
1.503 aanriot 73: be talks by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.502 mbalmer 74: Wim and the usual suspects.
75: <p>
76:
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1.152 jakob 79: <hr>
80:
81: <h2>Past events:</h2>
82:
1.455 grunk 83: <h3>2006</h3>
84: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 85:
1.506 ! deraadt 86: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
! 87: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
! 88: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
! 89: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
! 90: gave a talk
! 91: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
! 92: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
! 93: and live demonstration on redundant failover
! 94: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
! 95: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
! 96: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
! 97: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
! 98: <p>
! 99:
1.502 mbalmer 100: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
101: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
102: </strong>
103: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
104: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 105: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 106: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
107: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
108: <p>
109:
110: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
111: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
112: </strong>,
113: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
114: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
115: <p>
116:
1.500 deraadt 117: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
118: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
119: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 120: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
121: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 122: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
123: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
124: <p>
125:
1.491 bernd 126: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
127: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
128: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
129: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
130: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
131: PF tutorial</a>.
132: <p>
133:
1.490 reyk 134: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
135: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
136: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
137: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
138: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
139: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
140: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
141: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
142: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
143: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
144: <p>
145:
1.489 bernd 146: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
147: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
148: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
149: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
150: the overall system and its great features.
151: <p>
152:
1.484 mbalmer 153: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
154: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
155: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
156: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
157: <ul>
158: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
159: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 160: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 161: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
162: distributions...
163: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
164: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 165: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 166: infrastructure.
167: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
168: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
169: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
170: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
171: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
172: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
173: </ul>
174: <br>
175: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 176: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 177: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
178: <br>
179: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
180: usual suspects.
181: <p>
182:
183: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
184: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
185: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
186: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
187: <p>
188:
1.486 mickey 189: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
190: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
191: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
192: Mickey gave a talk
193: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
194: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
195: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
196: <p>
197:
1.484 mbalmer 198: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
199: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
200: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
201: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
202: talk. There is a
203: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
204: <p>
205:
1.478 mbalmer 206: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
207: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
208: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
209: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
210: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
211: well received.
212: <br>
213: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
214: and we could draw a lot of attention.
215: <p>
216:
1.479 deraadt 217: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
218: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
219: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
220: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 221: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
222: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
223: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 224: only).
225: <p>
226:
1.475 deraadt 227: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
228: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
229: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
230: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
231: Jason Dixon presented
232: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
233: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
234: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
235: <br>
236: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
237: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
238: <p>
239:
240: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
241: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
242: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
243: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
244: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
245: <br>
246: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
247: on sale.
248: <p>
249:
1.469 tom 250: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
251: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
252: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
253: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
254: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
255: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
256: Peter N. M. Hansteen
257: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
258: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
259: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
260: drivers for OpenBSD".
261: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
262: <p>
263:
1.459 henning 264: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
265: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
266: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
267: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
268: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
269: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
270: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
271: <p>
272:
1.457 wvdputte 273: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
274: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
275: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
276: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 277: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 278: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
279: BSD dinner. More details and
280: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 281: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 282: <p>
283:
284: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
285: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
286: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
287: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
288: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
289: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
290: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
291: <p>
1.455 grunk 292:
1.456 henning 293: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
294: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
295: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
296: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
297: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
298: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
299: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
300: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
301: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
302: <p>
303:
1.455 grunk 304: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
305: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
306: </strong>,
307: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
308: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
309: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
310: <p>
311: </ul>
312:
1.296 mcbride 313: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 314:
315: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 316:
1.445 martin 317: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
318: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
319: Berlin</a></strong>,
320: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
321: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
322: <p>
323:
1.435 matthieu 324: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
325: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
326: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
327: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
328: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 329: event.
1.444 grunk 330: The program included a
331: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 332: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
333: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 334: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
335: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 336: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 337: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 338: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 339: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 340: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 341: <p>
1.435 matthieu 342: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
343: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
344: <p>
345:
1.434 bernd 346: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
347: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
348: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
349: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
350: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
351: <p>
352:
1.441 niallo 353: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
354: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
355: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
356: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
357: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
358: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
359: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
360: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
361: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
362: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
363: scripts.
364: <p>
365:
1.424 mbalmer 366: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
367: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
368: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 369: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
370: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
371: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 372: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 373: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 374: talks, including
375: <ul>
376: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
377: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
378: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
379: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
380: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
381: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 382: <p>
383:
384: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
385: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
386: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 387: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 388: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
389: <p>
390:
1.418 djm 391: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
392: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
393: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
394: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
395: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
396: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
397: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 398: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
399: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
400: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 401: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
402: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
403: <p>
404:
1.415 aanriot 405: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
406: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
407: 2005</a></strong>,
408: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
409: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
410: help of Thierry Thomas.
411: <p>
412:
1.420 deraadt 413: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
414: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
415: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
416: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
417: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
418: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
419: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
420: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
421: registration was mandatory.<br>
422: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 423: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 424: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
425: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
426: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 427: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 428: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
429: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
430: mechanism.
431: <p>
432:
1.414 bernd 433: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
434: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
435: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
436: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
437: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
441: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
442: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
443: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
444: <p>
445:
1.410 wvdputte 446: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
447: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
448: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 449: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
450: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 451: <p>
452:
453: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
454: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
455: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
456: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 457: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 458: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
459: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
460: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
461: installed on your computer.
462: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 463: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 464: <p>
465:
1.404 wvdputte 466: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
467: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 468: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 469: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
470: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 471: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 472: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
473: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
474: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
475: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
476: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
477: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
478: <p>
479:
480: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
481: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
482: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
483: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
484: <p>
485:
1.403 henning 486: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
487: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 488: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 489: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
490: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
491: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
492: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
493: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
494: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
495: <p>
496:
1.388 tom 497: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
498: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
499: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 500: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 501: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
502: <p>
503:
1.385 mickey 504: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 505: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 506: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 507: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
508: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 509: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
510: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 511: and an excellent
512: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
513: If you want to see what happened previously, check
514: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
515: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
516: <p>
517:
1.382 pedro 518: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 519: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 520: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 521: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
522: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
523: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 524: <p>
525:
1.378 aanriot 526: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
527: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 528: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 529: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
530: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
531: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
532: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 533: <p>
534:
1.375 grunk 535: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
536: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 537: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 538: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
539: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
540: <p>
541:
1.374 grunk 542: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
543: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 544: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 545: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
546: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
547: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
548: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
549: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
550: <p>
551:
1.371 deraadt 552: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
553: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 554: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 555: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
556: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
557: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
558: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
559: He demonstrated how companies can easily
560: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
561: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
562: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
563: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
564: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
565: <p>
566:
1.366 martin 567: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
568: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
569: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
570: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
571: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
572: CDs and shirts.
573: <p>
574:
1.365 mcbride 575: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
576: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
577: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
578: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
579: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
580: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
581: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
582: <br>
583: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
584: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
585: <p>
586:
1.362 reyk 587: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
588: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
589: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
590: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
591: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
592: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
593: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
594: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
595: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
596: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
597: <p>
598:
1.358 mcbride 599: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
600: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
601: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
602: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
603: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
604: <p>
605:
1.357 henning 606: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
607: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
608: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
609: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
610: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
611: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
612: <p>
613:
1.384 tom 614: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 615: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 616: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 617: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
618: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
619: packages work in front of about 30 people.
620: <p>
621:
1.353 henning 622: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
623: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 624: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 625: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
626: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
627: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
628: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 629: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 630: <p>
631:
1.352 henning 632: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
633: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 634: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 635: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
636: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
637: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
638: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
639: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
640: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
641: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
642: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
643: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
644: available if you couldn't make it there.
645: <p>
646:
1.350 marius 647: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
648:
649: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 650: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 651: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
652: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
653: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
654: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
655: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 656: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 657: <p>
658:
1.345 henning 659: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
660: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 661: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 662: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
663: <p>
664:
1.344 martin 665: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
666: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 667: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 668: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
669: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
670: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
671: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
672: (in French) are available.
673: <p>
674:
1.337 deraadt 675: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
676: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 677: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 678: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
679: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 680: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 681: source firewalls.
682: <p>
683:
1.317 henning 684: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
685: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
686: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 687: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 688: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 689: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 690: <p>
691:
1.312 deraadt 692: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
693: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
694: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 695: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
696: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 697: <p>
698:
1.319 saad 699: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
700: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
701: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
702: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
703: <p>
704:
1.310 mickey 705: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 706: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 707: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 708: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 709: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
710: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 711: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 712: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 713: <p>
1.312 deraadt 714:
1.308 deraadt 715: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
716: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
717: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
718: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 719: talks. Topics included
720: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 721: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
722: OpenBGPD, and pf.
723: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 724: <p>
725:
1.304 saad 726: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
727: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
728: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
729: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
730: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 731: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 732: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 733: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
734: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 735: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 736: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
737: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
738: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 739: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 740: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
741: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
742: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
743: <p>
1.301 saad 744: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
745: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
746: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
747: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
748: <p>
749: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
750: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
751: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
752: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
753: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
754: <p>
1.293 saad 755: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
756: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
757: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
758: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
759: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
760: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 761: french translation team.<br>
762: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
763: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
764: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
765: available.<br>
766: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 767: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
768: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
769: <p>
1.296 mcbride 770: </ul>
1.293 saad 771:
1.296 mcbride 772: <h3>2004</h3>
773:
774: <ul>
1.287 henning 775: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
776: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 777: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 778: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
779: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
780: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 781: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 782: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
783: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
784: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
785: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
786: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
787: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 788: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 789: driver.
790: <p>
1.248 deraadt 791:
1.286 kevlo 792: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 793: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 794: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
795: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
796: <p>
797:
1.285 deraadt 798: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
799: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
800: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
801: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
802: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
803: <p>
804:
1.283 saad 805: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
806: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
807: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
808: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
809: meeting of the
810: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
811: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 812: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 813: <p>
814:
1.282 henning 815: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
816: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
817: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
818: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
819: two days, on bgpd
820: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
821: ntpd
822: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
823: and signal handlers
824: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
825: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
826: <p>
827:
1.275 deraadt 828: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
829: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
830: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
831: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
832: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
833: Room B-02 of the
834: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
835: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
836: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
837: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
838: The talk was also given the following day at the
839: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
840: <p>
841:
1.271 henning 842: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
843: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
844: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 845: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
846: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 847: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 848: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 849: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 850: <p>
851:
852: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
853: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
854: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 855: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
856: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 857: <p>
858:
1.276 deraadt 859: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 860: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
861: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
862: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
863: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
864: <p>
865:
866: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 867: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
868: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 869: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 870: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 871: <p>
872:
873: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
874: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
875: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
876: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
877: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
878: <p>
879:
1.268 krw 880: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
881: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
882: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
883: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
884: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
885: <p>
886:
1.375 grunk 887: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 888: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
889: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
890: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
891: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
892: <p>
893:
894: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
895: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 896: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 897: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
898: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
899: <p>
900:
1.265 wvdputte 901: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
902: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 903: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 904: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
905: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
906: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
907: event."
908: <br>
909: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
910: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
911: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
912: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
913: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
914: <br>
915: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
916: <p>
917:
1.262 henning 918: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
919: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 920: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 921: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
922: Henning's slides from his talks about
923: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
924: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
925: are available.
926: <p>
927:
1.261 deraadt 928: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 929: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 930: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
931: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
932: newly extended version of the
933: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
934: For more information, see this
935: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
936: ComputerWorld article</a>.
937: <p>
938:
939:
1.257 saad 940: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
941: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 942: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 943: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
944: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
948: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 949: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 950: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
951: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
952: <p>
953:
1.256 mickey 954: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 955: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 956: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
957: session.
958: <p>
959:
1.254 xsa 960: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 961: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 962: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
963: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
964: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
965: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
966: a basic talk about pf.
967: <p>
968:
1.248 deraadt 969: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 970: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 971: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
972: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 973: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
974: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
975: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 976: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
977: <p>
978:
1.247 canacar 979: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
980: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
981: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
982: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
983: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
984: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
985: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
986: projects were discussed.<br>
987: You can view the
1.281 canacar 988: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 989: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 990: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 991: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
992: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
993: <p>
994:
1.242 henning 995: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
996: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
997: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 998: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
999: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1000: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1001: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1002: and systrace
1.263 saad 1003: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1004: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1005: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1006: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1007: <p>
1008:
1.240 espie 1009: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1011: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1012: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1013: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1014: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1018: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1019: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1020: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1021: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1022: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1023: <p>
1024: </ul>
1025:
1.188 henning 1026: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1027:
1028: <ul>
1.232 jose 1029: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1030: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1031: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1032: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1033: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1034: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1035: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1036: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1037: <p>
1.232 jose 1038:
1.228 jose 1039: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1040: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1041: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1042: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1043: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1044: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1045: with OpenBSD PF.
1046: <p>
1047:
1048: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1049: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1050: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1051: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1052: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1053: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1054: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1055: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1056: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1057: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1058: slides in PDF format </a>
1059: (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 1060: <p>
1061:
1.227 jose 1062: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1063: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1064: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1065: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1069: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1070: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1071: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1072: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1073: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1074: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1075: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1076: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1077: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1078: in Internet worm defenses.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.224 miod 1081: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1082: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1083: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1084: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1085: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1086: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1087: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1088: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1089: OpenBSD.
1090: <p>
1091:
1092: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1093: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1094: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1095: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1096: <p>
1097:
1098: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1099: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1100: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1101: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1102: <p>
1103:
1.219 jose 1104: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1105: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1106: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1107: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1108: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1109: <p>
1110:
1.218 jose 1111: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1112: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1113: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1114: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1115: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1116: <p>
1117:
1.214 henning 1118: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1119: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1120: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1121: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1122: <p>
1123:
1.213 jose 1124: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1125: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1126: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1127: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1128: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1129: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1130: <p>
1131:
1.211 jose 1132: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1133: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1134: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1135: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1136: <p>
1137:
1138: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1139: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1140: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1141: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1142: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1143: <p>
1144:
1.209 wvdputte 1145: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1146: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1147: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1148: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1149: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1150:
1.202 jason 1151: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1152: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1153: Conference</a></strong>,
1154: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1155: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1156: <ul>
1.216 jose 1157: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1158: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1159: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1160: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1161: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1162: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1163: </ul>
1164: <p>
1165:
1.201 deraadt 1166: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1167: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1168: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1169: session.
1170: <p>
1171:
1.216 jose 1172: <li><strong>
1173: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1174: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1175: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1176: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1177: <p>
1178:
1.216 jose 1179: <li><strong>
1180: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1181: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1182: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1183: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1184: <p>
1185:
1.216 jose 1186: <li><strong>
1187: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1188: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1189: 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 1190: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1191: <p>
1192:
1.216 jose 1193: <li><strong>
1194: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1195: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1196: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1197: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1198: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1199: user groups.
1200: <p>
1201:
1.236 jose 1202: <li><strong>
1203: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1204: Group</a></strong>,
1205: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1206: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1207: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1208: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1209: <p>
1210:
1.216 jose 1211: <li><strong>
1212: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1213: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1214: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1215: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1216: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1217: <p>
1218:
1.216 jose 1219: <li><strong>
1220: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1221: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1222: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1223: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1224: <p>
1.236 jose 1225: </ul>
1.185 miod 1226:
1.161 millert 1227: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1228:
1229: <ul>
1230: <li><strong>
1231: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1232: Congress</a></strong>,
1233: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1234: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1235: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1236: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1237: <p>
1.177 jason 1238:
1.216 jose 1239: <li><strong>
1240: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1241: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1242: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1243: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1244: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1245: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1246: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1247: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1248: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1249: <p>
1.178 pb 1250:
1.216 jose 1251: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1252: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1253: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1254: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1255: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1256: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1257: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1258: <p>
1259:
1.216 jose 1260: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1261: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1262: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1263: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1264: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1265: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1266: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1270: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1271: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1272: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1273: Niels Provos presented his
1274: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1275: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1276: <p>
1.172 miod 1277:
1.216 jose 1278: <li><strong>
1279: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1280: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1281: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1282: <p>
1283:
1.216 jose 1284: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1285: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1286: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1287: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1288: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1289: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1290: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1291: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1292: <p>
1.168 miod 1293:
1.216 jose 1294: <li><strong>
1295: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1296: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1297: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1298: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1299: are available.
1.161 millert 1300: <p>
1301:
1.216 jose 1302: <li><strong>
1303: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1304: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1305: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1306: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1307: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1308: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1309: <p>
1310:
1.216 jose 1311: <li><strong>
1312: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1313: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1314: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1315: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1316: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1317: <p>
1.236 jose 1318: </ul>
1.164 millert 1319:
1.152 jakob 1320: <h3>2001</h3>
1321:
1.236 jose 1322: <ul>
1.216 jose 1323: <li><strong>
1324: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1325: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1326: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1327: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1328: <p>
1329:
1.216 jose 1330: <li><strong>
1331: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1332: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1333: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1334: <p>
1335:
1.158 deraadt 1336: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1337: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1338: 2001</a></strong>,
1339: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1340: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1341: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1342: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1343: <p>
1344:
1.216 jose 1345: <li><strong>
1346: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1347: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1348: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1349: <p>
1350:
1.201 deraadt 1351: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1352: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1353: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1354: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1355:
1.150 wvdputte 1356: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1357: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1358: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1359: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1360: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1361: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1362: <p>
1.137 aaron 1363:
1364: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1365: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1366: Conference</a></strong>,
1367: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1368: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1369: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1370: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1371: <p>
1372:
1373: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1374: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1375: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1376: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1377: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1378: <p>
1379:
1380: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1381: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1382: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1383: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1384: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1385: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1386: <p>
1387:
1388: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1389: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1390: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1391: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1392: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1393: <p>
1394:
1395: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1396: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1397: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1398: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1399: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1400: security community.
1401: <p>
1402:
1403: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1404: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1405: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1406: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1407: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1408: <p>
1409:
1410: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1411: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1412: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1413: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1414: <p>
1.236 jose 1415: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1416:
1.132 louis 1417: <h3>2000</h3>
1418:
1.236 jose 1419: <ul>
1.132 louis 1420: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1421: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1422: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1423: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1424: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1425: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1426: <p>
1427:
1428: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1429: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1430: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1431: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1432: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1433: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1434: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1435: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1439: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1440: 2000</a></strong>,
1441: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1442: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1443: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1444: <p>
1.4 millert 1445:
1.132 louis 1446: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1447: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1448: Summit</a></strong>,
1449: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1450: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1451: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1452: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1453:
1454: <ul>
1.236 jose 1455: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1456: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1457: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1458: </ul>
1.4 millert 1459: <p>
1.132 louis 1460:
1.7 deraadt 1461: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1462: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1463: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1464: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1465: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1466: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1467: mind (drinks afterwards).
1468: <p>
1469:
1.216 jose 1470: <li><strong>
1471: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1472: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1473: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1474: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1475: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1476:
1.132 louis 1477: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1478: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1479: Revolution</a></strong>,
1480: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1481: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1482: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1483: <p>
1484:
1.132 louis 1485: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1486: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1487: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1488: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1489: <ul>
1.236 jose 1490: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1491: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1492: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1493: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1494: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1495: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1496: <p>
1.132 louis 1497:
1.10 provos 1498: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1499: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1500: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1501: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1502: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1503: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1504: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1505: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1506: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1507: <br>
1508: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1509: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1510: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1511:
1.132 louis 1512: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1513: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1514: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1515: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1516: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1517: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1518: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1519: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1520: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1521: and spoke about
1522: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1523: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1524: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1525: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1526: <p>
1.132 louis 1527:
1.6 deraadt 1528: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1529: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1530: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1531: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1532: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1533: <br>
1534: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1535: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1536: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1537: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1538:
1.216 jose 1539: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1540: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1541: Conference.</a></strong>,
1542: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1543: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1544: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1545: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1546: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1547: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1548: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1549: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1550: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1551: <ul>
1552:
1553: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1554: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1555: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1556: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1557: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1558:
1559: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1560: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1561: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1562: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1563: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1564:
1.132 louis 1565: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1566: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1567: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1568: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1569: <p>
1570:
1.132 louis 1571: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1572: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1573: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1574: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1575: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1576: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1577: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1578: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1579:
1.132 louis 1580: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1581: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1582: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1583: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1584: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1585: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1586: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1587: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1588: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1589:
1.17 deraadt 1590: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1591: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1592: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1593: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1594: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1595: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1596: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1597: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1598: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1599:
1.23 niklas 1600: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1601: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1602: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1603: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1604: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1605: efforts.
1606: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1607: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1608: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1609: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1610: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1611: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1612:
1.132 louis 1613: <li><strong>
1614: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1615: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1616: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1617: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1618: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1619: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1620: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1621: <p>
1.23 niklas 1622:
1.31 deraadt 1623: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1624: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1625: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1626: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1627: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1628: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1629: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1630: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1631: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1632: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1633:
1.201 deraadt 1634: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1635: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1636: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1637: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1638: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1639: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1640: <p>
1.236 jose 1641: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1642:
1.132 louis 1643: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1644:
1.236 jose 1645: <ul>
1.216 jose 1646: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1647: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1648: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1649: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1650: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1651: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1652: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1653: <p>
1654:
1.216 jose 1655: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1656: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1657: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1658: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1659: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1660: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1661: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1662: There were many other OpenBSD
1663: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1664: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1665:
1666: <ul>
1667: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1668: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1669: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1670: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1671: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1672: </ul>
1673: <p>
1674:
1675: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1676: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1677: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1678: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1679: <p>
1680:
1681: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1682: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1683: Software '99</a></strong>,
1684: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1685: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1686: <a
1.375 grunk 1687: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1688: <p>
1689:
1690: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1691: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1692: 1999</a></strong>,
1693: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1694: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1695: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1696: <p>
1697:
1.236 jose 1698: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1699: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1700: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1701: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1702: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1703: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1704: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1705: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1706: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1707: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1708: conference in Stockholm.
1709: <p>
1710:
1711: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1712: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1713: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1714: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1715: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1716: coordinated.
1717: <p>
1718:
1719: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1720: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1721: Security</a></strong>,
1722: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1723: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1724: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1725: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1726: significant security roles.
1727: <p>
1728:
1729: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1730: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1731: meeting</a></strong>,
1732: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1733: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1734: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1735: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1736: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1737: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1738: <p>
1.45 jason 1739:
1.132 louis 1740: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1741: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1742: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1743: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1744: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1745: <p>
1.132 louis 1746:
1.236 jose 1747: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1748: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1749: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1750: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1751: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1752: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1753: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1754: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1755: June.)
1.132 louis 1756: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1757: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1758: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1759:
1.375 grunk 1760: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1761: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1762: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1763: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1764: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1765: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1766: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1767: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1768: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1769: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1770: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1771: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1772: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1773: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1774: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1775: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1776: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1777: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1778: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1779: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1780: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1781: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1782: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1783: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1784: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1785: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1786: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1787: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1788:
1.51 deraadt 1789: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1790: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1791: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1792: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1793: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1794: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1795: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1796: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1797: <p>
1798:
1.53 jakob 1799: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1801: meeting</a></strong>,
1802: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1803: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1804: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1805: <p>
1806:
1.132 louis 1807: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1808: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1809: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1810: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1811: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1812: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1813: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1814: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1815: <p>
1.236 jose 1816: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1817:
1.132 louis 1818: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1819:
1.236 jose 1820: <ul>
1.132 louis 1821: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1822: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1823: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1824: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1825: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1826: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1827: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1828: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1829: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1830: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1831: <p>
1832:
1.236 jose 1833: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1834: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1835: Conference</a></strong>,
1836: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1837: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1838: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1839: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1840: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1841: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1842: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1843: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1844: <br>
1845: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1846: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1847: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1848: <p>
1849:
1.73 deraadt 1850: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1851: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1852: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1853: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1854: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1855: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1856: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1857: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1858: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1859:
1.236 jose 1860: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1861: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1862: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1863: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1864: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1865: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1866: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1867: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1868:
1.80 deraadt 1869: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1870: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1871: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1872: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1873: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1874: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1875: <p>
1876:
1.93 louis 1877: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1878: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1879: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1880: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1881: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1882: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1883: <p>
1884:
1.216 jose 1885: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1886: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1887: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1888: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1889: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1890: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1891: <p>
1892:
1.236 jose 1893: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1894: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1895: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1896: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1897: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1898: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1899: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1900: <br>
1901: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1902: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1903: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1904: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1905: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1906:
1.236 jose 1907: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1908: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1909: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1910: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1911: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1912: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1913: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1914: <p>
1915:
1.236 jose 1916: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1917: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1918: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1919: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1920: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1921: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1922: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1923: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1924: <br>
1925: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1926: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1927: <p>
1928:
1.105 wvdputte 1929: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1930: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1931: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1932: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1933: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1934: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1935: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1936: <br>
1.132 louis 1937: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1938: <p>
1.236 jose 1939: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1940:
1.132 louis 1941: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1942:
1.236 jose 1943: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1944: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1946: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1947: Niels held a
1948: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1949: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1950: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1951: <p>
1.132 louis 1952:
1.236 jose 1953: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1954: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1955: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1956: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1957: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1958: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1959:
1.236 jose 1960: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1961: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1962: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1963: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1964: <br>
1965: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1966: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1967: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1968: <p>
1969:
1.125 deraadt 1970: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1971: <a
1972: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1973: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1974: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1975: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1976: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1977:
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