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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>
1.537 deraadt 44:
45: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
46: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au//">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
47: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
48: A pretty OpenBSD-friendly conference, well worth attending.
49: Ryan Mcbride will be presenting a full-day tutorial entitled
50: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks "PF evolution"
51: and "Network stack randomness in OpenBSD".
1.529 henning 52: <p>
53:
1.510 wvdputte 54: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
55: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
56: 2006</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 57: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
58: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
1.510 wvdputte 59: help of Thierry Thomas and some more potential guests.
60: <p>
61:
1.537 deraadt 62: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
63: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
64: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
65: Henning Brauer will speak about OpenBGPD.
66: <p>
67:
1.510 wvdputte 68: <li><strong><a name=systems2006></a>
1.523 grunk 69: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1.510 wvdputte 70: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
71: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, volunteers needed.
1.523 grunk 72: Contact <a href="mailto:sturm@openbsd.org">sturm</a> or
73: <a href="mailto:grunk@openbsd.org">grunk</a> if you want to help.
1.510 wvdputte 74: <p>
75:
76: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
77: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 78: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.510 wvdputte 79: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim.
80: <p>
81:
1.520 ray 82: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
83: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
84: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
85: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
86: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.531 jason 87: to network with like minded people.
1.530 jason 88: Several developers will be speaking, and more will be on hand:
89: <ul>
90: <li>Marco Peereboom: <i>bio and sensors in OpenBSD</i>
91: <li>Jason Wright: <i>OpenBSD/sparc64</i>
1.535 deraadt 92: <li>Bob Beck: <i>PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore</i>
1.534 ray 93: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
1.530 jason 94: </ul>
1.520 ray 95: <p>
96:
1.527 pedro 97: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
98: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
99: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
100: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
101: Kenneth Westerback and Pedro Martelletto will give a talk.
102: <p>
103:
1.510 wvdputte 104: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2006></a>
105: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 106: Nov 14 - 16, 2006, Köln, Germany.<br>
1.510 wvdputte 107: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
108: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and usual suspects.
1.491 bernd 109: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 110:
1.515 tom 111: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
112: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.536 mbalmer 113: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, CourtYard Venice Airport, Tessera/Venice - Italy<br>
1.502 mbalmer 114: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will
1.535 deraadt 115: an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
116: Several developers will be speaking:
117: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 118: <li>Claudio Jeker: <i>Network changes in OpenBSD</i>
119: <li>Marc Balmer: <i>Time Signal Stations and GPS</i>
120: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
121: <li>Jonathan Gray: <i>Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</i>
122: <li>Marco Peereboom: <i>Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</i>
1.535 deraadt 123: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 124: <p>
125:
1.510 wvdputte 126: <li><strong><a name=23c3></a>
1.512 wvdputte 127: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
1.510 wvdputte 128: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 129: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
130: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.510 wvdputte 131: closing event.
132: <p>
133:
1.236 jose 134: </ul>
1.299 deraadt 135:
1.152 jakob 136: <hr>
137:
138: <h2>Past events:</h2>
139:
1.455 grunk 140: <h3>2006</h3>
141: <ul>
1.532 wvdputte 142: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
143: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
144: </a></strong>,
145: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
146: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
147: <p>
148:
1.528 wvdputte 149: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
150: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
151: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
152: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
153: <p>
154:
1.525 wvdputte 155: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
156: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
157: </strong>,
158: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
160: <p>
161:
1.521 fkr 162: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
163: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
164: </strong>,
165: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
166: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
167: <p>
168:
1.518 tedu 169: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
171: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
172: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
173: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
174: <p>
175:
176: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
178: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
179: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
180: <p>
1.475 deraadt 181:
1.510 wvdputte 182: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
183: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
184: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
185: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
186: Serge Basterot.
187: <p>
188:
1.508 wvdputte 189: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
190: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
191: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
192: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 193: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 194: Tim Kornau.
195: <p>
196:
1.507 mbalmer 197: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
198: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
199: </strong>,
200: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
201: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
202: <p>
203:
1.506 deraadt 204: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 205: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 206: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
207: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
208: gave a talk
209: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
210: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
211: and live demonstration on redundant failover
212: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
213: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
214: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
215: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
216: <p>
217:
1.502 mbalmer 218: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
219: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
220: </strong>
221: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
222: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 223: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 224: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
225: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
229: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
230: </strong>,
231: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
232: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
233: <p>
234:
1.500 deraadt 235: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
236: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
237: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 238: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
239: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 240: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
241: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
242: <p>
243:
1.491 bernd 244: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
245: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
246: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
247: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
248: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
249: PF tutorial</a>.
250: <p>
251:
1.490 reyk 252: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
253: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
254: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
255: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
256: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
257: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
258: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
259: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
260: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
261: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
262: <p>
263:
1.489 bernd 264: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
265: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
266: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
267: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
268: the overall system and its great features.
269: <p>
270:
1.484 mbalmer 271: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
272: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
273: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
274: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
275: <ul>
276: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
277: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 278: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 279: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
280: distributions...
281: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
282: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 283: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 284: infrastructure.
285: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
286: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
287: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
288: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
289: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
290: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
291: </ul>
292: <br>
293: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 294: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 295: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
296: <br>
297: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
298: usual suspects.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
302: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
303: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
304: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
305: <p>
306:
1.486 mickey 307: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
308: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
309: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
310: Mickey gave a talk
311: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a>)
312: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
313: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
314: <p>
315:
1.484 mbalmer 316: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
317: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
318: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
319: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
320: talk. There is a
321: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
322: <p>
323:
1.478 mbalmer 324: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
325: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
326: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
327: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
328: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
329: well received.
330: <br>
331: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
332: and we could draw a lot of attention.
333: <p>
334:
1.479 deraadt 335: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
336: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
337: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
338: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 339: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
340: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
341: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 342: only).
343: <p>
344:
1.475 deraadt 345: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
346: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
347: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
348: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
349: Jason Dixon presented
350: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
351: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
352: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
353: <br>
354: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
355: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
356: <p>
357:
358: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
359: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
360: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
361: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
362: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
363: <br>
364: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
365: on sale.
366: <p>
367:
1.469 tom 368: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
369: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
370: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
371: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
372: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
373: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
374: Peter N. M. Hansteen
375: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
376: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
377: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
378: drivers for OpenBSD".
379: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
380: <p>
381:
1.459 henning 382: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
384: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
385: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
386: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
387: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
388: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
389: <p>
390:
1.457 wvdputte 391: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
392: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
393: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
394: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 395: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 396: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
397: BSD dinner. More details and
398: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 399: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 400: <p>
401:
402: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
403: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
404: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
405: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
406: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
407: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
408: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
409: <p>
1.455 grunk 410:
1.456 henning 411: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
412: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
413: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
414: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
415: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
416: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
417: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
418: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
419: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
420: <p>
421:
1.455 grunk 422: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
423: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
424: </strong>,
425: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
426: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
427: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
428: <p>
429: </ul>
430:
1.296 mcbride 431: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 432:
433: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 434:
1.445 martin 435: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
436: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
437: Berlin</a></strong>,
438: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
439: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
440: <p>
441:
1.435 matthieu 442: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
443: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
444: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
445: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
446: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 447: event.
1.444 grunk 448: The program included a
449: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 450: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
451: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 452: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
453: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 454: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 455: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 456: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 457: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 458: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 459: <p>
1.435 matthieu 460: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
461: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
462: <p>
463:
1.434 bernd 464: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
465: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
466: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
467: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
468: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
469: <p>
470:
1.441 niallo 471: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
472: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
473: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
474: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
475: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
476: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
477: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
478: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
479: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
480: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
481: scripts.
482: <p>
483:
1.424 mbalmer 484: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
485: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
486: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 487: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
488: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
489: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 490: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 491: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 492: talks, including
493: <ul>
494: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
495: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
496: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
497: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
498: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
499: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 500: <p>
501:
502: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
503: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
504: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 505: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 506: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
507: <p>
508:
1.418 djm 509: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
510: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
511: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
512: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
513: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
514: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
515: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 516: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
517: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
518: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 519: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
520: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
521: <p>
522:
1.415 aanriot 523: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
524: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
525: 2005</a></strong>,
526: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
527: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
528: help of Thierry Thomas.
529: <p>
530:
1.420 deraadt 531: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
532: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
533: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
534: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
535: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
536: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
537: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
538: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
539: registration was mandatory.<br>
540: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 541: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 542: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
543: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
544: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 545: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 546: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
547: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
548: mechanism.
549: <p>
550:
1.414 bernd 551: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
552: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
553: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
554: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
555: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
556: <p>
557:
558: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
559: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
560: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
561: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
562: <p>
563:
1.410 wvdputte 564: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
565: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
566: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 567: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
568: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 569: <p>
570:
571: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
572: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
573: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
574: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 575: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 576: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
577: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
578: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
579: installed on your computer.
580: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 581: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 582: <p>
583:
1.404 wvdputte 584: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
585: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 586: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 587: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
588: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 589: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 590: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
591: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
592: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
593: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
594: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
595: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
596: <p>
597:
598: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
599: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
600: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
601: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
602: <p>
603:
1.403 henning 604: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
605: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 606: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 607: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
608: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
609: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
610: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
611: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
612: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
613: <p>
614:
1.388 tom 615: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
616: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
617: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 618: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 619: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
620: <p>
621:
1.385 mickey 622: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 623: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 624: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 625: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
626: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 627: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
628: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 629: and an excellent
630: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
631: If you want to see what happened previously, check
632: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
633: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
634: <p>
635:
1.382 pedro 636: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 637: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 638: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 ! pedro 639: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 640: <p>
641:
1.378 aanriot 642: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
643: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 644: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 645: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
646: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
647: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
648: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 649: <p>
650:
1.375 grunk 651: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
652: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 653: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 654: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
655: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
656: <p>
657:
1.374 grunk 658: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
659: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 660: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 661: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
662: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
663: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
664: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
665: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
666: <p>
667:
1.371 deraadt 668: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
669: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 670: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 671: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
672: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
673: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
674: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
675: He demonstrated how companies can easily
676: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
677: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
678: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
679: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
680: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
681: <p>
682:
1.366 martin 683: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
684: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
685: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
686: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
687: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
688: CDs and shirts.
689: <p>
690:
1.365 mcbride 691: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
692: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
693: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
694: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
695: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
696: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
697: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
698: <br>
699: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
700: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
701: <p>
702:
1.362 reyk 703: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
704: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
705: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
706: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
707: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
708: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
709: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
710: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
711: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
712: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
713: <p>
714:
1.358 mcbride 715: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
716: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
717: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
718: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
719: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
720: <p>
721:
1.357 henning 722: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
723: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
724: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
725: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
726: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
727: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
728: <p>
729:
1.384 tom 730: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 731: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 732: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 733: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
734: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
735: packages work in front of about 30 people.
736: <p>
737:
1.353 henning 738: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
739: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 740: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 741: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
742: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
743: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
744: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 745: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 746: <p>
747:
1.352 henning 748: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
749: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 750: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 751: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
752: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
753: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
754: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
755: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
756: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
757: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
758: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
759: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
760: available if you couldn't make it there.
761: <p>
762:
1.350 marius 763: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
764:
765: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 766: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 767: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
768: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
769: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
770: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
771: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 772: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 773: <p>
774:
1.345 henning 775: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
776: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 777: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 778: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
779: <p>
780:
1.344 martin 781: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
782: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 783: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 784: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
785: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
786: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
787: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
788: (in French) are available.
789: <p>
790:
1.337 deraadt 791: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
792: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 793: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 794: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
795: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 796: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 797: source firewalls.
798: <p>
799:
1.317 henning 800: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
801: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
802: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 803: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 804: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 805: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 806: <p>
807:
1.312 deraadt 808: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
809: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
810: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 811: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
812: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 813: <p>
814:
1.319 saad 815: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
816: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
817: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
818: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
819: <p>
820:
1.310 mickey 821: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 822: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 823: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 824: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 825: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
826: <a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 827: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 828: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 829: <p>
1.312 deraadt 830:
1.308 deraadt 831: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
832: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
833: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
834: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 835: talks. Topics included
836: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 837: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
838: OpenBGPD, and pf.
839: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 840: <p>
841:
1.304 saad 842: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
843: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
844: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
845: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
846: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 847: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 848: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 849: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
850: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 851: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 852: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
853: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
854: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 855: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 856: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
857: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
858: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
859: <p>
1.301 saad 860: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
861: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
862: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
863: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
864: <p>
865: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
866: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
867: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
868: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
869: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
870: <p>
1.293 saad 871: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
872: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
873: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
874: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
875: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
876: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 877: french translation team.<br>
878: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
879: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
880: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
881: available.<br>
882: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 883: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
884: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
885: <p>
1.296 mcbride 886: </ul>
1.293 saad 887:
1.296 mcbride 888: <h3>2004</h3>
889:
890: <ul>
1.287 henning 891: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
892: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 893: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 894: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
895: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
896: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 897: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 898: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
899: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
900: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
901: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
902: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
903: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 904: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 905: driver.
906: <p>
1.248 deraadt 907:
1.286 kevlo 908: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 909: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 910: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
911: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
912: <p>
913:
1.285 deraadt 914: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
915: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
916: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
917: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
918: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
919: <p>
920:
1.283 saad 921: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
922: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
923: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
924: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
925: meeting of the
926: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
927: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 928: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 929: <p>
930:
1.282 henning 931: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
932: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
933: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
934: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
935: two days, on bgpd
936: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
937: ntpd
938: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
939: and signal handlers
940: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
941: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
942: <p>
943:
1.275 deraadt 944: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
945: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
946: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
947: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
948: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
949: Room B-02 of the
950: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
951: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
952: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
953: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
954: The talk was also given the following day at the
955: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
956: <p>
957:
1.271 henning 958: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
959: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
960: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 961: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
962: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 963: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 964: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 965: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 966: <p>
967:
968: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
969: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
970: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 971: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
972: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 973: <p>
974:
1.276 deraadt 975: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 976: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
977: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
978: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
979: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 983: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
984: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 985: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 986: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 987: <p>
988:
989: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
990: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
991: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
992: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
993: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
994: <p>
995:
1.268 krw 996: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
997: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
998: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
999: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1000: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1001: <p>
1002:
1.375 grunk 1003: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1004: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1005: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1006: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1007: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1008: <p>
1009:
1010: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1011: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1012: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1013: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1014: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1015: <p>
1016:
1.265 wvdputte 1017: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1018: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1019: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1020: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1021: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1022: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1023: event."
1024: <br>
1025: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1026: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1027: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1028: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1029: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1030: <br>
1031: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1032: <p>
1033:
1.262 henning 1034: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1035: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1036: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1037: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1038: Henning's slides from his talks about
1039: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1040: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1041: are available.
1042: <p>
1043:
1.261 deraadt 1044: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1045: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1046: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1047: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1048: newly extended version of the
1049: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1050: For more information, see this
1051: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1052: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1053: <p>
1054:
1055:
1.257 saad 1056: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1057: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1058: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1059: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1060: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1061: <p>
1062:
1063: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1064: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1065: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1066: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1067: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1068: <p>
1069:
1.256 mickey 1070: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1071: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1072: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1073: session.
1074: <p>
1075:
1.254 xsa 1076: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1077: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1078: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1079: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1080: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1081: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1082: a basic talk about pf.
1083: <p>
1084:
1.248 deraadt 1085: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1086: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1087: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1088: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1089: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1090: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1091: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1092: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1093: <p>
1094:
1.247 canacar 1095: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1096: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1097: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1098: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1099: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1100: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1101: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1102: projects were discussed.<br>
1103: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1104: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1105: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1106: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1107: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1108: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1109: <p>
1110:
1.242 henning 1111: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1112: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1113: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1114: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1115: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1116: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1117: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1118: and systrace
1.263 saad 1119: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1120: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1121: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1122: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1123: <p>
1124:
1.240 espie 1125: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1126: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1127: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1128: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1129: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1130: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1134: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1135: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1136: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1137: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1138: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1139: <p>
1140: </ul>
1141:
1.188 henning 1142: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1143:
1144: <ul>
1.232 jose 1145: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1146: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1147: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1148: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1149: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1150: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1151: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1152: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1153: <p>
1.232 jose 1154:
1.228 jose 1155: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1156: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1157: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1158: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1159: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1160: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1161: with OpenBSD PF.
1162: <p>
1163:
1164: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1165: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1166: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1167: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1168: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1169: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1170: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1171: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1172: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1173: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1174: slides in PDF format </a>
1175: (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 1176: <p>
1177:
1.227 jose 1178: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1179: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1180: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1181: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1182: <p>
1183:
1184: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1185: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1186: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1187: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1188: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1189: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1190: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1191: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1192: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1193: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1194: in Internet worm defenses.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.224 miod 1197: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1198: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1199: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1200: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1201: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1202: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1203: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1204: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1205: OpenBSD.
1206: <p>
1207:
1208: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1209: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1210: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1211: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1212: <p>
1213:
1214: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1215: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1216: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1217: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1218: <p>
1219:
1.219 jose 1220: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1221: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1222: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1223: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1224: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1225: <p>
1226:
1.218 jose 1227: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1228: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1229: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1230: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1231: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1232: <p>
1233:
1.214 henning 1234: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1235: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1236: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1237: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1238: <p>
1239:
1.213 jose 1240: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1241: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1242: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1243: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1244: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1245: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1246: <p>
1247:
1.211 jose 1248: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1249: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1250: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1251: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1255: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1256: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1257: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1258: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1259: <p>
1260:
1.209 wvdputte 1261: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1262: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1263: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1264: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1265: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1266:
1.202 jason 1267: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1268: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1269: Conference</a></strong>,
1270: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1271: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1272: <ul>
1.216 jose 1273: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1274: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1275: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1276: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1277: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1278: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1279: </ul>
1280: <p>
1281:
1.201 deraadt 1282: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1283: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1284: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1285: session.
1286: <p>
1287:
1.216 jose 1288: <li><strong>
1289: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1290: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1291: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1292: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1293: <p>
1294:
1.216 jose 1295: <li><strong>
1296: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1297: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1298: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1299: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1300: <p>
1301:
1.216 jose 1302: <li><strong>
1303: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1304: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1305: 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 1306: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1307: <p>
1308:
1.216 jose 1309: <li><strong>
1310: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1311: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1312: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1313: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1314: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1315: user groups.
1316: <p>
1317:
1.236 jose 1318: <li><strong>
1319: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1320: Group</a></strong>,
1321: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1322: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1323: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1324: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1325: <p>
1326:
1.216 jose 1327: <li><strong>
1328: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1329: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1330: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1331: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1332: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.216 jose 1335: <li><strong>
1336: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1337: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1338: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1339: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1340: <p>
1.236 jose 1341: </ul>
1.185 miod 1342:
1.161 millert 1343: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1344:
1345: <ul>
1346: <li><strong>
1347: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1348: Congress</a></strong>,
1349: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1350: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1351: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1352: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1353: <p>
1.177 jason 1354:
1.216 jose 1355: <li><strong>
1356: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1357: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1358: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1359: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1360: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1361: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1362: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1363: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1364: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1365: <p>
1.178 pb 1366:
1.216 jose 1367: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1368: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1369: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1370: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1371: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1372: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1373: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1374: <p>
1375:
1.216 jose 1376: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1377: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1378: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1379: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1380: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1381: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1382: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1383: <p>
1384:
1385: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1386: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1387: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1388: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1389: Niels Provos presented his
1390: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1391: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1392: <p>
1.172 miod 1393:
1.216 jose 1394: <li><strong>
1395: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1396: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1397: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1398: <p>
1399:
1.216 jose 1400: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1401: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1402: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1403: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1404: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1405: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1406: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1407: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1408: <p>
1.168 miod 1409:
1.216 jose 1410: <li><strong>
1411: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1412: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1413: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1414: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1415: are available.
1.161 millert 1416: <p>
1417:
1.216 jose 1418: <li><strong>
1419: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1420: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1421: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1422: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1423: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1424: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1425: <p>
1426:
1.216 jose 1427: <li><strong>
1428: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1429: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1430: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1431: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1432: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1433: <p>
1.236 jose 1434: </ul>
1.164 millert 1435:
1.152 jakob 1436: <h3>2001</h3>
1437:
1.236 jose 1438: <ul>
1.216 jose 1439: <li><strong>
1440: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1441: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1442: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1443: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1444: <p>
1445:
1.216 jose 1446: <li><strong>
1447: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1448: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1449: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1450: <p>
1451:
1.158 deraadt 1452: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1453: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1454: 2001</a></strong>,
1455: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1456: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1457: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1458: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1459: <p>
1460:
1.216 jose 1461: <li><strong>
1462: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1463: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1464: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.201 deraadt 1467: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1468: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1469: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1470: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1471:
1.150 wvdputte 1472: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1473: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1474: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1475: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1476: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1477: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1478: <p>
1.137 aaron 1479:
1480: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1481: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1482: Conference</a></strong>,
1483: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1484: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1485: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1486: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1487: <p>
1488:
1489: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1490: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1491: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1492: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1493: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1494: <p>
1495:
1496: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1497: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1498: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1499: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1500: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1501: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1502: <p>
1503:
1504: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1505: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1506: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1507: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1508: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1509: <p>
1510:
1511: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1512: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1513: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1514: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1515: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1516: security community.
1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1520: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1521: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1522: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1523: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1524: <p>
1525:
1526: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1527: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1528: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1529: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1530: <p>
1.236 jose 1531: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1532:
1.132 louis 1533: <h3>2000</h3>
1534:
1.236 jose 1535: <ul>
1.132 louis 1536: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1537: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1538: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1539: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1540: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1541: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1542: <p>
1543:
1544: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1545: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1546: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1547: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1548: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1549: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1550: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1551: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1552: <p>
1553:
1554: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1555: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1556: 2000</a></strong>,
1557: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1558: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1559: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1560: <p>
1.4 millert 1561:
1.132 louis 1562: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1563: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1564: Summit</a></strong>,
1565: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1566: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1567: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1568: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1569:
1570: <ul>
1.236 jose 1571: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1572: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1573: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1574: </ul>
1.4 millert 1575: <p>
1.132 louis 1576:
1.7 deraadt 1577: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1578: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1579: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1580: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1581: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1582: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1583: mind (drinks afterwards).
1584: <p>
1585:
1.216 jose 1586: <li><strong>
1587: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1588: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1589: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1590: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1591: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1592:
1.132 louis 1593: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1594: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1595: Revolution</a></strong>,
1596: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1597: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1598: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1599: <p>
1600:
1.132 louis 1601: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1603: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1604: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1605: <ul>
1.236 jose 1606: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1607: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1608: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1609: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1610: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1611: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1612: <p>
1.132 louis 1613:
1.10 provos 1614: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1615: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1616: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1617: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1618: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1619: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1620: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1621: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1622: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1623: <br>
1624: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1625: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1626: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1627:
1.132 louis 1628: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1629: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1630: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1631: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1632: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1633: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1634: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1635: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1636: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1637: and spoke about
1638: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1639: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1640: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1641: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1642: <p>
1.132 louis 1643:
1.6 deraadt 1644: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1645: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1646: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1647: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1648: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1649: <br>
1650: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1651: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1652: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1653: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1654:
1.216 jose 1655: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1656: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1657: Conference.</a></strong>,
1658: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1659: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1660: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1661: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1662: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1663: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1664: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1665: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1666: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1667: <ul>
1668:
1669: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1670: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1671: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1672: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1673: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1674:
1675: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1676: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1677: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1678: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1679: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1680:
1.132 louis 1681: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1682: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1683: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1684: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1685: <p>
1686:
1.132 louis 1687: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1689: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1690: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1691: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1692: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1693: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1694: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1695:
1.132 louis 1696: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1697: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1698: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1699: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1700: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1701: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1702: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1703: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1704: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1705:
1.17 deraadt 1706: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1707: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1708: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1709: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1710: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1711: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1712: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1713: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1714: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1715:
1.23 niklas 1716: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1717: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1718: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1719: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1720: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1721: efforts.
1722: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1723: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1724: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1725: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1726: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1727: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1728:
1.132 louis 1729: <li><strong>
1730: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1731: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1732: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1733: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1734: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1735: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1736: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1737: <p>
1.23 niklas 1738:
1.31 deraadt 1739: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1740: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1741: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1742: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1743: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1744: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1745: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1746: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1747: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1748: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1749:
1.201 deraadt 1750: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1751: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1752: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1753: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1754: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1755: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1756: <p>
1.236 jose 1757: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1758:
1.132 louis 1759: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1760:
1.236 jose 1761: <ul>
1.216 jose 1762: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1763: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1764: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1765: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1766: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1767: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1768: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1769: <p>
1770:
1.216 jose 1771: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1772: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1773: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1774: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1775: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1776: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1777: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1778: There were many other OpenBSD
1779: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1780: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1781:
1782: <ul>
1783: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1784: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1785: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1786: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1787: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1788: </ul>
1789: <p>
1790:
1791: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1792: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1793: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1794: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1795: <p>
1796:
1797: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1798: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1799: Software '99</a></strong>,
1800: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1801: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1802: <a
1.375 grunk 1803: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1804: <p>
1805:
1806: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1807: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1808: 1999</a></strong>,
1809: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1810: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1811: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1812: <p>
1813:
1.236 jose 1814: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1815: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1816: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1817: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1818: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1819: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1820: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1821: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1822: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1823: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1824: conference in Stockholm.
1825: <p>
1826:
1827: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1828: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1829: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1830: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1831: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1832: coordinated.
1833: <p>
1834:
1835: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1836: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1837: Security</a></strong>,
1838: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1839: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1840: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1841: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1842: significant security roles.
1843: <p>
1844:
1845: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1846: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1847: meeting</a></strong>,
1848: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1849: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1850: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1851: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1852: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1853: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1854: <p>
1.45 jason 1855:
1.132 louis 1856: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1857: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1858: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1859: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1860: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1861: <p>
1.132 louis 1862:
1.236 jose 1863: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1864: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1865: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1866: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1867: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1868: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1869: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1870: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1871: June.)
1.132 louis 1872: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1873: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1874: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1875:
1.375 grunk 1876: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1877: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1878: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1879: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1880: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1881: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1882: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1883: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1884: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1885: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1886: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1887: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1888: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1889: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1890: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1891: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1892: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1893: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1894: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1895: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1896: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1897: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1898: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1899: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1900: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1901: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1902: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1903: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1904:
1.51 deraadt 1905: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1906: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1907: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1908: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1909: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1910: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1911: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1912: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1913: <p>
1914:
1.53 jakob 1915: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1917: meeting</a></strong>,
1918: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1919: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1920: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1921: <p>
1922:
1.132 louis 1923: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1924: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1925: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1926: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1927: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1928: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1929: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1930: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1931: <p>
1.236 jose 1932: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1933:
1.132 louis 1934: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1935:
1.236 jose 1936: <ul>
1.132 louis 1937: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1938: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1939: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1940: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1941: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1942: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1943: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1944: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1945: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1946: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1947: <p>
1948:
1.236 jose 1949: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1950: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1951: Conference</a></strong>,
1952: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1953: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1954: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1955: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1956: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1957: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1958: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1959: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1960: <br>
1961: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1962: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1963: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1964: <p>
1965:
1.73 deraadt 1966: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1967: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1968: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1969: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1970: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1971: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1972: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1973: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1974: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1975:
1.236 jose 1976: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1977: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1978: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1979: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1980: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1981: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1982: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1983: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1984:
1.80 deraadt 1985: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1986: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
1987: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1988: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 1989: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 1990: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 1991: <p>
1992:
1.93 louis 1993: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1994: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1995: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 1996: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1997: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
1998: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 1999: <p>
2000:
1.216 jose 2001: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2002: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2003: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2004: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2005: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2006: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2007: <p>
2008:
1.236 jose 2009: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2010: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2011: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2012: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2013: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2014: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2015: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2016: <br>
2017: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2018: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2019: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2020: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2021: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2022:
1.236 jose 2023: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2024: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2025: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2026: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2027: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2028: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2029: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2030: <p>
2031:
1.236 jose 2032: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2033: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2034: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2035: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2036: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2037: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2038: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2039: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2040: <br>
2041: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2042: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2043: <p>
2044:
1.105 wvdputte 2045: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2046: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2047: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2048: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2049: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2050: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2051: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2052: <br>
1.132 louis 2053: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2054: <p>
1.236 jose 2055: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2056:
1.132 louis 2057: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2058:
1.236 jose 2059: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2060: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2061: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2062: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2063: Niels held a
2064: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2065: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2066: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2067: <p>
1.132 louis 2068:
1.236 jose 2069: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2070: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2071: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2072: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2073: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2074: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2075:
1.236 jose 2076: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2077: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2078: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2079: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2080: <br>
2081: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2082: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2083: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2084: <p>
2085:
1.125 deraadt 2086: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2087: <a
2088: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2089: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2090: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2091: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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