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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:
1.491 bernd 45: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
1.509 ! aanriot 46: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
1.491 bernd 47: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
48: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1.509 ! aanriot 49: suspects, with the help of Alexandre and Serge Basterot.
1.491 bernd 50: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 51:
52: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"</a>
53: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>
1.504 miod 54: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, Venice Gateway for Science and Technology (VEGA),
1.502 mbalmer 55: Venice/Mestre, Italy<br>
56: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will
1.503 aanriot 57: be talks by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.502 mbalmer 58: Wim and the usual suspects.
59: <p>
60:
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1.152 jakob 63: <hr>
64:
65: <h2>Past events:</h2>
66:
1.455 grunk 67: <h3>2006</h3>
68: <ul>
1.475 deraadt 69:
1.508 wvdputte 70: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
71: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
72: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
73: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
74: There was be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
75: Tim Kornau.
76: <p>
77:
1.507 mbalmer 78: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
79: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
80: </strong>,
81: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
82: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
83: <p>
84:
1.506 deraadt 85: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
86: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
87: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
88: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
89: gave a talk
90: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
91: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
92: and live demonstration on redundant failover
93: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
94: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
95: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
96: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
97: <p>
98:
1.502 mbalmer 99: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
100: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
101: </strong>
102: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
103: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 104: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 105: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
106: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
110: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
111: </strong>,
112: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
113: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
114: <p>
115:
1.500 deraadt 116: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
117: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
118: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 119: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
120: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 121: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
122: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
123: <p>
124:
1.491 bernd 125: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
126: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
127: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
128: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
129: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
130: PF tutorial</a>.
131: <p>
132:
1.490 reyk 133: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
134: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
135: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
136: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
137: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
138: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
139: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
140: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
141: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
142: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
143: <p>
144:
1.489 bernd 145: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
146: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
147: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
148: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
149: the overall system and its great features.
150: <p>
151:
1.484 mbalmer 152: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
153: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
154: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
155: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
156: <ul>
157: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
158: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 159: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 160: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
161: distributions...
162: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
163: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 164: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 165: infrastructure.
166: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
167: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
168: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
169: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
170: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
171: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
172: </ul>
173: <br>
174: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 175: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 176: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
177: <br>
178: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
179: usual suspects.
180: <p>
181:
182: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
183: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
184: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
185: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
186: <p>
187:
1.486 mickey 188: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
189: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
190: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
191: Mickey gave a talk
192: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
193: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
194: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
195: <p>
196:
1.484 mbalmer 197: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
198: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
199: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
200: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
201: talk. There is a
202: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
203: <p>
204:
1.478 mbalmer 205: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
206: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
207: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
208: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
209: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
210: well received.
211: <br>
212: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
213: and we could draw a lot of attention.
214: <p>
215:
1.479 deraadt 216: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
217: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
218: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
219: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 220: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
221: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
222: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 223: only).
224: <p>
225:
1.475 deraadt 226: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
227: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
228: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
229: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
230: Jason Dixon presented
231: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
232: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
233: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
234: <br>
235: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
236: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
240: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
241: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
242: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
243: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
244: <br>
245: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
246: on sale.
247: <p>
248:
1.469 tom 249: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
250: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
251: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
252: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
253: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
254: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
255: Peter N. M. Hansteen
256: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
257: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
258: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
259: drivers for OpenBSD".
260: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
261: <p>
262:
1.459 henning 263: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
264: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
265: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
266: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
267: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
268: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
269: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
270: <p>
271:
1.457 wvdputte 272: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
273: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
274: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
275: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 276: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 277: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
278: BSD dinner. More details and
279: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 280: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 281: <p>
282:
283: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
284: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
285: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
286: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
287: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
288: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
289: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
290: <p>
1.455 grunk 291:
1.456 henning 292: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
293: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
294: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
295: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
296: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
297: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
298: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
299: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
300: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
301: <p>
302:
1.455 grunk 303: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
304: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
305: </strong>,
306: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
307: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
308: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
309: <p>
310: </ul>
311:
1.296 mcbride 312: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 313:
314: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 315:
1.445 martin 316: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
317: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
318: Berlin</a></strong>,
319: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
320: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
321: <p>
322:
1.435 matthieu 323: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
324: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
325: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
326: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
327: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 328: event.
1.444 grunk 329: The program included a
330: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 331: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
332: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 333: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
334: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 335: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 336: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 337: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 338: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 339: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 340: <p>
1.435 matthieu 341: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
342: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
343: <p>
344:
1.434 bernd 345: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
346: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
347: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
348: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
349: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
350: <p>
351:
1.441 niallo 352: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
353: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
354: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
355: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
356: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
357: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
358: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
359: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
360: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
361: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
362: scripts.
363: <p>
364:
1.424 mbalmer 365: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
366: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
367: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 368: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
369: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
370: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 371: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 372: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 373: talks, including
374: <ul>
375: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
376: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
377: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
378: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
379: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
380: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 381: <p>
382:
383: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
384: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
385: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 386: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 387: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
388: <p>
389:
1.418 djm 390: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
391: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
392: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
393: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
394: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
395: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
396: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 397: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
398: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
399: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 400: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
401: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
402: <p>
403:
1.415 aanriot 404: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
405: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
406: 2005</a></strong>,
407: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
408: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
409: help of Thierry Thomas.
410: <p>
411:
1.420 deraadt 412: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
413: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
414: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
415: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
416: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
417: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
418: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
419: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
420: registration was mandatory.<br>
421: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 422: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 423: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
424: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
425: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 426: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 427: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
428: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
429: mechanism.
430: <p>
431:
1.414 bernd 432: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
433: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
434: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
435: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
436: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
440: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
441: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
442: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
443: <p>
444:
1.410 wvdputte 445: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
446: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
447: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 448: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
449: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 450: <p>
451:
452: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
453: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
454: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
455: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 456: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 457: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
458: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
459: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
460: installed on your computer.
461: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 462: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 463: <p>
464:
1.404 wvdputte 465: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
466: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 467: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 468: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
469: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 470: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 471: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
472: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
473: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
474: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
475: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
476: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
480: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
481: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
482: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
483: <p>
484:
1.403 henning 485: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
486: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 487: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 488: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
489: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
490: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
491: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
492: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
493: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
494: <p>
495:
1.388 tom 496: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
497: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
498: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 499: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 500: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
501: <p>
502:
1.385 mickey 503: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 504: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 505: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 506: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
507: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 508: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
509: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 510: and an excellent
511: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
512: If you want to see what happened previously, check
513: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
514: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
515: <p>
516:
1.382 pedro 517: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 518: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 519: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.391 pedro 520: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
521: <a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
522: Portuguese, are available.
1.382 pedro 523: <p>
524:
1.378 aanriot 525: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
526: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 527: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 528: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
529: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
530: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
531: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 532: <p>
533:
1.375 grunk 534: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
535: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 536: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 537: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
538: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
539: <p>
540:
1.374 grunk 541: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
542: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 543: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 544: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
545: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
546: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
547: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
548: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
549: <p>
550:
1.371 deraadt 551: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
552: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 553: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 554: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
555: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
556: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
557: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
558: He demonstrated how companies can easily
559: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
560: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
561: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
562: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
563: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
564: <p>
565:
1.366 martin 566: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
567: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
568: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
569: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
570: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
571: CDs and shirts.
572: <p>
573:
1.365 mcbride 574: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
575: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
576: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
577: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
578: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
579: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
580: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
581: <br>
582: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
583: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
584: <p>
585:
1.362 reyk 586: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
587: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
588: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
589: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
590: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
591: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
592: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
593: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
594: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
595: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
596: <p>
597:
1.358 mcbride 598: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
599: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
600: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
601: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
602: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
603: <p>
604:
1.357 henning 605: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
606: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
607: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
608: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
609: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
610: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
611: <p>
612:
1.384 tom 613: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 614: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 615: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 616: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
617: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
618: packages work in front of about 30 people.
619: <p>
620:
1.353 henning 621: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
622: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 623: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 624: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
625: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
626: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
627: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 628: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 629: <p>
630:
1.352 henning 631: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
632: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 633: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 634: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
635: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
636: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
637: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
638: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
639: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
640: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
641: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
642: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
643: available if you couldn't make it there.
644: <p>
645:
1.350 marius 646: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
647:
648: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 649: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 650: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
651: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
652: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
653: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
654: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 655: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 656: <p>
657:
1.345 henning 658: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
659: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 660: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 661: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
662: <p>
663:
1.344 martin 664: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
665: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 666: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 667: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
668: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
669: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
670: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
671: (in French) are available.
672: <p>
673:
1.337 deraadt 674: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
675: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 676: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 677: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
678: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 679: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 680: source firewalls.
681: <p>
682:
1.317 henning 683: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
684: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
685: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 686: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 687: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 688: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 689: <p>
690:
1.312 deraadt 691: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
692: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
693: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 694: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
695: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 696: <p>
697:
1.319 saad 698: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
699: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
700: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
701: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
702: <p>
703:
1.310 mickey 704: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 705: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 706: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 707: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 708: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
709: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 710: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 711: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 712: <p>
1.312 deraadt 713:
1.308 deraadt 714: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
715: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
716: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
717: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 718: talks. Topics included
719: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 720: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
721: OpenBGPD, and pf.
722: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 723: <p>
724:
1.304 saad 725: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
726: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
727: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
728: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
729: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 730: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 731: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 732: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
733: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 734: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 735: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
736: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
737: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 738: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 739: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
740: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
741: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
742: <p>
1.301 saad 743: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
744: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
745: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
746: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
747: <p>
748: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
749: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
750: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
751: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
752: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
753: <p>
1.293 saad 754: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
755: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
756: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
757: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
758: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
759: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 760: french translation team.<br>
761: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
762: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
763: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
764: available.<br>
765: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 766: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
767: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
768: <p>
1.296 mcbride 769: </ul>
1.293 saad 770:
1.296 mcbride 771: <h3>2004</h3>
772:
773: <ul>
1.287 henning 774: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
775: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 776: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 777: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
778: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
779: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 780: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 781: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
782: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
783: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
784: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
785: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
786: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 787: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 788: driver.
789: <p>
1.248 deraadt 790:
1.286 kevlo 791: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 792: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 793: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
794: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
795: <p>
796:
1.285 deraadt 797: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
798: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
799: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
800: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
801: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
802: <p>
803:
1.283 saad 804: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
805: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
806: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
807: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
808: meeting of the
809: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
810: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 811: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 812: <p>
813:
1.282 henning 814: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
815: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
816: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
817: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
818: two days, on bgpd
819: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
820: ntpd
821: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
822: and signal handlers
823: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
824: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
825: <p>
826:
1.275 deraadt 827: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
828: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
829: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
830: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
831: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
832: Room B-02 of the
833: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
834: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
835: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
836: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
837: The talk was also given the following day at the
838: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
839: <p>
840:
1.271 henning 841: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
842: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
843: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 844: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
845: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 846: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 847: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 848: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 849: <p>
850:
851: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
852: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
853: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 854: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
855: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 856: <p>
857:
1.276 deraadt 858: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 859: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
860: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
861: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
862: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 866: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
867: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 868: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 869: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 870: <p>
871:
872: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
873: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
874: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
875: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
876: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
877: <p>
878:
1.268 krw 879: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
880: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
881: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
882: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
883: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
884: <p>
885:
1.375 grunk 886: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 887: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
888: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
889: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
890: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
894: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 895: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 896: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
897: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
898: <p>
899:
1.265 wvdputte 900: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
901: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 902: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 903: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
904: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
905: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
906: event."
907: <br>
908: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
909: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
910: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
911: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
912: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
913: <br>
914: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
915: <p>
916:
1.262 henning 917: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
918: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 919: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 920: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
921: Henning's slides from his talks about
922: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
923: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
924: are available.
925: <p>
926:
1.261 deraadt 927: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 928: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 929: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
930: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
931: newly extended version of the
932: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
933: For more information, see this
934: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
935: ComputerWorld article</a>.
936: <p>
937:
938:
1.257 saad 939: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
940: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 941: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 942: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
943: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
944: <p>
945:
946: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
947: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 948: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 949: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
950: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
951: <p>
952:
1.256 mickey 953: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 954: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 955: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
956: session.
957: <p>
958:
1.254 xsa 959: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 960: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 961: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
962: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
963: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
964: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
965: a basic talk about pf.
966: <p>
967:
1.248 deraadt 968: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 969: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 970: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
971: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 972: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
973: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
974: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 975: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
976: <p>
977:
1.247 canacar 978: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
979: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
980: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
981: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
982: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
983: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
984: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
985: projects were discussed.<br>
986: You can view the
1.281 canacar 987: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 988: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 989: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 990: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
991: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
992: <p>
993:
1.242 henning 994: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
995: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
996: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 997: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
998: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
999: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1000: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1001: and systrace
1.263 saad 1002: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1003: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1004: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1005: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1006: <p>
1007:
1.240 espie 1008: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1009: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1010: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1011: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1012: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1013: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1014: <p>
1015:
1016: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1017: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1018: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1019: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1020: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1021: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1022: <p>
1023: </ul>
1024:
1.188 henning 1025: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1026:
1027: <ul>
1.232 jose 1028: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1029: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1030: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1031: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1032: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1033: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1034: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1035: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1036: <p>
1.232 jose 1037:
1.228 jose 1038: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1039: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1040: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1041: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1042: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1043: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1044: with OpenBSD PF.
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1048: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1049: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1050: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1051: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1052: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1053: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1054: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1055: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1056: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1057: slides in PDF format </a>
1058: (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 1059: <p>
1060:
1.227 jose 1061: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1062: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1063: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1064: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1065: <p>
1066:
1067: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1068: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1069: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1070: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1071: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1072: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1073: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1074: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1075: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1076: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1077: in Internet worm defenses.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.224 miod 1080: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1082: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1083: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1084: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1085: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1086: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1087: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1088: OpenBSD.
1089: <p>
1090:
1091: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1092: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1093: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1094: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1095: <p>
1096:
1097: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1098: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1099: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1100: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1101: <p>
1102:
1.219 jose 1103: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1104: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1105: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1106: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1107: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1108: <p>
1109:
1.218 jose 1110: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1111: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1112: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1113: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1114: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.214 henning 1117: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1118: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1119: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1120: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1121: <p>
1122:
1.213 jose 1123: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1124: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1125: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1126: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1127: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1128: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.211 jose 1131: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1132: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1133: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1134: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1135: <p>
1136:
1137: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1138: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1139: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1140: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1141: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1142: <p>
1143:
1.209 wvdputte 1144: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1145: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1146: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1147: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1148: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1149:
1.202 jason 1150: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1151: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1152: Conference</a></strong>,
1153: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1154: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1155: <ul>
1.216 jose 1156: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1157: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1158: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1159: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1160: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1161: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1162: </ul>
1163: <p>
1164:
1.201 deraadt 1165: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1166: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1167: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1168: session.
1169: <p>
1170:
1.216 jose 1171: <li><strong>
1172: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1173: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1174: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1175: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.216 jose 1178: <li><strong>
1179: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1180: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1181: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1182: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1183: <p>
1184:
1.216 jose 1185: <li><strong>
1186: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1187: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1188: 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 1189: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1190: <p>
1191:
1.216 jose 1192: <li><strong>
1193: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1194: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1195: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1196: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1197: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1198: user groups.
1199: <p>
1200:
1.236 jose 1201: <li><strong>
1202: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1203: Group</a></strong>,
1204: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1205: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1206: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1207: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1208: <p>
1209:
1.216 jose 1210: <li><strong>
1211: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1212: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1213: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1214: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1215: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1216: <p>
1217:
1.216 jose 1218: <li><strong>
1219: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1220: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1221: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1222: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1223: <p>
1.236 jose 1224: </ul>
1.185 miod 1225:
1.161 millert 1226: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1227:
1228: <ul>
1229: <li><strong>
1230: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1231: Congress</a></strong>,
1232: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1233: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1234: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1235: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1236: <p>
1.177 jason 1237:
1.216 jose 1238: <li><strong>
1239: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1240: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1241: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1242: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1243: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1244: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1245: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1246: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1247: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1248: <p>
1.178 pb 1249:
1.216 jose 1250: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1251: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1252: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1253: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1254: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1255: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1256: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1257: <p>
1258:
1.216 jose 1259: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1260: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1261: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1262: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1263: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1264: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1265: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1266: <p>
1267:
1268: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1269: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1270: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1271: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1272: Niels Provos presented his
1273: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1274: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1275: <p>
1.172 miod 1276:
1.216 jose 1277: <li><strong>
1278: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1279: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1280: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1281: <p>
1282:
1.216 jose 1283: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1284: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1285: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1286: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1287: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1288: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1289: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1290: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1291: <p>
1.168 miod 1292:
1.216 jose 1293: <li><strong>
1294: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1295: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1296: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1297: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1298: are available.
1.161 millert 1299: <p>
1300:
1.216 jose 1301: <li><strong>
1302: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1303: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1304: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1305: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1306: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1307: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1308: <p>
1309:
1.216 jose 1310: <li><strong>
1311: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1312: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1313: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1314: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1315: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1316: <p>
1.236 jose 1317: </ul>
1.164 millert 1318:
1.152 jakob 1319: <h3>2001</h3>
1320:
1.236 jose 1321: <ul>
1.216 jose 1322: <li><strong>
1323: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1324: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1325: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1326: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1327: <p>
1328:
1.216 jose 1329: <li><strong>
1330: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1331: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1332: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.158 deraadt 1335: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1336: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1337: 2001</a></strong>,
1338: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1339: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1340: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1341: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1342: <p>
1343:
1.216 jose 1344: <li><strong>
1345: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1346: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1347: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1348: <p>
1349:
1.201 deraadt 1350: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1351: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1352: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1353: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1354:
1.150 wvdputte 1355: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1356: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1357: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1358: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1359: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1360: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1361: <p>
1.137 aaron 1362:
1363: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1364: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1365: Conference</a></strong>,
1366: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1367: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1368: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1369: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1370: <p>
1371:
1372: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1373: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1374: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1375: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1376: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1377: <p>
1378:
1379: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1380: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1381: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1382: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1383: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1384: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1385: <p>
1386:
1387: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1388: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1389: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1390: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1391: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1392: <p>
1393:
1394: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1395: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1396: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1397: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1398: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1399: security community.
1400: <p>
1401:
1402: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1403: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1404: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1405: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1406: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1407: <p>
1408:
1409: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1410: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1411: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1412: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1413: <p>
1.236 jose 1414: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1415:
1.132 louis 1416: <h3>2000</h3>
1417:
1.236 jose 1418: <ul>
1.132 louis 1419: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1420: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1421: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1422: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1423: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1424: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1425: <p>
1426:
1427: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1428: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1429: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1430: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1431: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1432: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1433: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1434: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1435: <p>
1436:
1437: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1438: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1439: 2000</a></strong>,
1440: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1441: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1442: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1443: <p>
1.4 millert 1444:
1.132 louis 1445: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1446: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1447: Summit</a></strong>,
1448: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1449: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1450: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1451: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1452:
1453: <ul>
1.236 jose 1454: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1455: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1456: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1457: </ul>
1.4 millert 1458: <p>
1.132 louis 1459:
1.7 deraadt 1460: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1461: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1462: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1463: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1464: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1465: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1466: mind (drinks afterwards).
1467: <p>
1468:
1.216 jose 1469: <li><strong>
1470: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1471: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1472: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1473: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1474: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1475:
1.132 louis 1476: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1477: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1478: Revolution</a></strong>,
1479: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1480: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1481: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1482: <p>
1483:
1.132 louis 1484: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1485: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1486: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1487: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1488: <ul>
1.236 jose 1489: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1490: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1491: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1492: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1493: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1494: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1495: <p>
1.132 louis 1496:
1.10 provos 1497: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1498: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1499: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1500: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1501: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1502: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1503: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1504: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1505: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1506: <br>
1507: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1508: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1509: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1510:
1.132 louis 1511: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1512: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1513: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1514: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1515: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1516: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1517: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1518: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1519: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1520: and spoke about
1521: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1522: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1523: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1524: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1525: <p>
1.132 louis 1526:
1.6 deraadt 1527: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1528: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1529: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1530: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1531: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1532: <br>
1533: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1534: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1535: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1536: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1537:
1.216 jose 1538: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1539: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1540: Conference.</a></strong>,
1541: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1542: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1543: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1544: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1545: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1546: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1547: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1548: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1549: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1550: <ul>
1551:
1552: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1553: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1554: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1555: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1556: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1557:
1558: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1559: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1560: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1561: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1562: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1563:
1.132 louis 1564: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1565: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1566: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1567: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1568: <p>
1569:
1.132 louis 1570: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1571: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1572: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1573: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1574: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1575: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1576: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1577: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1578:
1.132 louis 1579: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1580: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1581: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1582: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1583: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1584: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1585: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1586: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1587: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1588:
1.17 deraadt 1589: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1590: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1591: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1592: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1593: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1594: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1595: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1596: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1597: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1598:
1.23 niklas 1599: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1600: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1601: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1602: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1603: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1604: efforts.
1605: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1606: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1607: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1608: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1609: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1610: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1611:
1.132 louis 1612: <li><strong>
1613: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1614: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1615: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1616: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1617: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1618: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1619: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1620: <p>
1.23 niklas 1621:
1.31 deraadt 1622: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1623: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1624: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1625: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1626: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1627: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1628: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1629: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1630: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1631: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1632:
1.201 deraadt 1633: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1634: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1635: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1636: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1637: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1638: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1639: <p>
1.236 jose 1640: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1641:
1.132 louis 1642: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1643:
1.236 jose 1644: <ul>
1.216 jose 1645: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1646: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1647: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1648: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1649: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1650: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1651: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1652: <p>
1653:
1.216 jose 1654: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1655: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1656: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1657: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1658: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1659: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1660: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1661: There were many other OpenBSD
1662: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1663: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1664:
1665: <ul>
1666: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1668: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1670: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1671: </ul>
1672: <p>
1673:
1674: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1675: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1676: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1677: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1678: <p>
1679:
1680: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1681: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1682: Software '99</a></strong>,
1683: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1684: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1685: <a
1.375 grunk 1686: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1687: <p>
1688:
1689: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1690: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1691: 1999</a></strong>,
1692: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1693: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1694: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1695: <p>
1696:
1.236 jose 1697: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1698: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1699: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1700: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1701: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1702: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1703: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1704: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1705: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1706: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1707: conference in Stockholm.
1708: <p>
1709:
1710: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1711: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1712: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1713: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1714: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1715: coordinated.
1716: <p>
1717:
1718: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1719: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1720: Security</a></strong>,
1721: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1722: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1723: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1724: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1725: significant security roles.
1726: <p>
1727:
1728: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1729: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1730: meeting</a></strong>,
1731: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1732: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1733: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1734: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1735: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1736: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1737: <p>
1.45 jason 1738:
1.132 louis 1739: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1740: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1741: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1742: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1743: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1744: <p>
1.132 louis 1745:
1.236 jose 1746: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1747: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1748: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1749: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1750: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1751: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1752: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1753: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1754: June.)
1.132 louis 1755: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1756: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1757: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1758:
1.375 grunk 1759: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1760: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1761: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1762: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1763: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1764: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1765: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1766: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1767: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1768: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1769: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1770: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1771: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1772: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1773: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1774: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1775: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1776: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1777: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1778: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1779: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1780: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1781: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1782: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1783: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1784: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1785: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1786: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1787:
1.51 deraadt 1788: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1789: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1790: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1791: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1792: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1793: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1794: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1795: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1796: <p>
1797:
1.53 jakob 1798: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1799: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1800: meeting</a></strong>,
1801: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1802: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1803: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1804: <p>
1805:
1.132 louis 1806: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1807: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1808: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1809: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1810: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1811: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1812: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1813: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1814: <p>
1.236 jose 1815: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1816:
1.132 louis 1817: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1818:
1.236 jose 1819: <ul>
1.132 louis 1820: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1821: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1822: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1823: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1824: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1825: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1826: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1827: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1828: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1829: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1830: <p>
1831:
1.236 jose 1832: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1833: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1834: Conference</a></strong>,
1835: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1836: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1837: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1838: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1839: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1840: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1841: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1842: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1843: <br>
1844: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1845: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1846: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1847: <p>
1848:
1.73 deraadt 1849: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1851: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1852: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1853: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1854: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1855: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1856: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1857: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1858:
1.236 jose 1859: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1860: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1861: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1862: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1863: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1864: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1865: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1866: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1867:
1.80 deraadt 1868: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1869: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1870: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1871: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1872: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1873: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1874: <p>
1875:
1.93 louis 1876: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1877: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1878: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1879: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1880: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1881: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1882: <p>
1883:
1.216 jose 1884: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1885: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
1886: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1887: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1888: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 1889: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 1890: <p>
1891:
1.236 jose 1892: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1893: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1894: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1895: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
1896: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
1897: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
1898: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
1899: <br>
1900: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 1901: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 1902: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 1903: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 1904: <p>
1.94 deraadt 1905:
1.236 jose 1906: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1907: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1908: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
1909: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
1910: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
1911: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
1912: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 1913: <p>
1914:
1.236 jose 1915: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
1916: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1917: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1918: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
1919: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
1920: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
1921: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
1922: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
1923: <br>
1924: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 1925: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 1926: <p>
1927:
1.105 wvdputte 1928: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1929: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1930: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1931: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
1932: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
1933: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 1934: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 1935: <br>
1.132 louis 1936: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1937: <p>
1.236 jose 1938: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 1939:
1.132 louis 1940: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 1941:
1.236 jose 1942: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1943: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1944: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1945: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 1946: Niels held a
1947: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 1948: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
1949: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 1950: <p>
1.132 louis 1951:
1.236 jose 1952: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 1953: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 1954: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 1955: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 1956: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 1957: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 1958:
1.236 jose 1959: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1960: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1961: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1962: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
1963: <br>
1964: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 1965: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 1966: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1967: <p>
1968:
1.125 deraadt 1969: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1970: <a
1971: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1972: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 1973: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
1974: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 1975: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 1976:
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