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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:
1.527 pedro 45: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
46: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
47: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
48: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
49: Kenneth Westerback and Pedro Martelletto will give a talk.
50: <p>
51:
1.510 wvdputte 52: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2006></a>
53: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 54: Nov 14 - 16, 2006, Köln, Germany.<br>
1.510 wvdputte 55: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
56: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and usual suspects.
1.491 bernd 57: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 58:
1.515 tom 59: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
60: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.536 mbalmer 61: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, CourtYard Venice Airport, Tessera/Venice - Italy<br>
1.502 mbalmer 62: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD. There will
1.540 deraadt 63: be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
1.535 deraadt 64: Several developers will be speaking:
65: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 66: <li>Claudio Jeker: <i>Network changes in OpenBSD</i>
1.552 mbalmer 67: <li>Marc Balmer: <i>Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</i>
1.537 deraadt 68: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
69: <li>Jonathan Gray: <i>Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</i>
1.543 mbalmer 70: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.549 marco 71: <li>David Gwynne: <i>The OpenBSD Culture</i> and he will also fill in for Marco's <i>Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</i> talk.
1.544 mbalmer 72: <li>Can Erkin Acar: <i>Developing Secure Software</i>
1.555 mbalmer 73: <li>Michele Marchetto: <i>OpenRIPD</i>
1.535 deraadt 74: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 75: <p>
76:
1.510 wvdputte 77: <li><strong><a name=23c3></a>
1.512 wvdputte 78: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
1.510 wvdputte 79: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 80: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
81: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.510 wvdputte 82: closing event.
83: <p>
84:
1.152 jakob 85: <hr>
86:
87: <h2>Past events:</h2>
88:
1.455 grunk 89: <h3>2006</h3>
90: <ul>
1.559 jason 91:
92: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
93: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
94: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
95: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
96: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 97: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 98: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 99: <ul>
100: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 101: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
102: <li>Jason Wright: <a href="http://www.thought.net/jason/sparc64-nycbsdcon06/">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.1.mp3">audio</a>]
103: <li>Bob Beck: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/pf">PF, it is not just for firewalls anymore</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.3.mp3">audio</a>]
104: <li>Bob Beck: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd">OpenBSD spamd - greylisting and beyond</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.4.mp3">audio</a>]
1.559 jason 105: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
106: </ul>
107: <p>
108:
1.556 fgsch 109: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
110: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
111: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 112: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
113: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 114: <p>
115:
1.553 grunk 116: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
117: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
118: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
119: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
120: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
121: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
122: and some other volunteers.
123: <p>
124:
1.551 deraadt 125: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
126: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
127: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
128: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
129: vendors to open up their documentation.
130: <p>
131:
1.550 henning 132: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
133: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
134: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
135: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
136: <p>
137:
1.547 aanriot 138: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
139: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
140: 2006</a></strong>,
141: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
142: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
143: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
144: <p>
145:
1.546 mcbride 146: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
147: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
148: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
149: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
150: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
151: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
152: and
153: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
154: <p>
155:
1.532 wvdputte 156: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
157: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
158: </a></strong>,
159: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
160: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
161: <p>
162:
1.528 wvdputte 163: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
164: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
165: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
166: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
167: <p>
168:
1.525 wvdputte 169: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
170: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
171: </strong>,
172: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
173: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
174: <p>
175:
1.521 fkr 176: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
178: </strong>,
179: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
180: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
181: <p>
182:
1.518 tedu 183: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
184: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
185: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
186: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
187: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
188: <p>
189:
190: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
191: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
192: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
193: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
194: <p>
1.475 deraadt 195:
1.510 wvdputte 196: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
197: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
198: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
199: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
200: Serge Basterot.
201: <p>
202:
1.508 wvdputte 203: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
204: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
205: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
206: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 207: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 208: Tim Kornau.
209: <p>
210:
1.507 mbalmer 211: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
212: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
213: </strong>,
214: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
215: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
216: <p>
217:
1.506 deraadt 218: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 219: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 220: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
221: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
222: gave a talk
223: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
224: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
225: and live demonstration on redundant failover
226: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
227: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
228: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
229: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
230: <p>
231:
1.502 mbalmer 232: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
233: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
234: </strong>
235: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
236: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 237: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 238: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
239: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
243: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
244: </strong>,
245: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
246: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
247: <p>
248:
1.500 deraadt 249: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
250: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
251: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 252: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
253: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 254: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
255: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
256: <p>
257:
1.491 bernd 258: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
259: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
260: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
261: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
262: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
263: PF tutorial</a>.
264: <p>
265:
1.490 reyk 266: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
267: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
268: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
269: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
270: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
271: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
272: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
273: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
274: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
275: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
276: <p>
277:
1.489 bernd 278: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
279: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
280: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
281: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
282: the overall system and its great features.
283: <p>
284:
1.484 mbalmer 285: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
286: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
287: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
288: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
289: <ul>
290: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
291: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 292: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 293: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
294: distributions...
295: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
296: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 297: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 298: infrastructure.
299: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
300: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
301: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
302: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
303: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
304: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
305: </ul>
306: <br>
307: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 308: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 309: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
310: <br>
311: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
312: usual suspects.
313: <p>
314:
315: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
316: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
317: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
318: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
319: <p>
320:
1.486 mickey 321: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
322: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
323: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
324: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 ! jason 325: (<a href="papers/nyc2006">slides</a> and <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-05-03-06.mp3">audio</a>))
1.486 mickey 326: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
327: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
328: <p>
329:
1.484 mbalmer 330: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
331: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
332: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
333: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
334: talk. There is a
335: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
336: <p>
337:
1.478 mbalmer 338: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
339: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
340: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
341: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
342: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
343: well received.
344: <br>
345: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
346: and we could draw a lot of attention.
347: <p>
348:
1.479 deraadt 349: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
350: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
351: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
352: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 353: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
354: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
355: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 356: only).
357: <p>
358:
1.475 deraadt 359: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
360: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
361: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
362: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
363: Jason Dixon presented
364: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
365: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
366: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
367: <br>
368: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
369: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
370: <p>
371:
372: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
373: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
374: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
375: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
376: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
377: <br>
378: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
379: on sale.
380: <p>
381:
1.469 tom 382: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
384: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
385: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
386: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
387: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
388: Peter N. M. Hansteen
389: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
390: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
391: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
392: drivers for OpenBSD".
393: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
394: <p>
395:
1.459 henning 396: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
397: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
398: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
399: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
400: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
401: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
402: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
403: <p>
404:
1.457 wvdputte 405: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
406: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
407: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
408: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 409: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 410: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
411: BSD dinner. More details and
412: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 413: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 414: <p>
415:
416: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
417: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
418: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
419: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
420: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
421: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
422: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
423: <p>
1.455 grunk 424:
1.456 henning 425: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
426: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
427: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
428: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
429: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
430: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
431: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
432: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
433: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
434: <p>
435:
1.455 grunk 436: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
437: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
438: </strong>,
439: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
440: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
441: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
442: <p>
443: </ul>
444:
1.296 mcbride 445: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 446:
447: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 448:
1.445 martin 449: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
450: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
451: Berlin</a></strong>,
452: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
453: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
454: <p>
455:
1.435 matthieu 456: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
457: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
458: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
459: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
460: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 461: event.
1.444 grunk 462: The program included a
463: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 464: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
465: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 466: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
467: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 468: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 469: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 470: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 471: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 472: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 473: <p>
1.435 matthieu 474: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
475: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
476: <p>
477:
1.434 bernd 478: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
479: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
480: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
481: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
482: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
483: <p>
484:
1.441 niallo 485: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
486: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
487: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
488: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
489: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
490: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
491: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
492: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
493: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
494: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
495: scripts.
496: <p>
497:
1.424 mbalmer 498: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
499: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
500: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 501: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
502: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
503: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 504: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 505: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 506: talks, including
507: <ul>
508: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
509: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
510: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
511: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
512: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
513: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 514: <p>
515:
516: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
517: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
518: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 519: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 520: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
521: <p>
522:
1.418 djm 523: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
524: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
525: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
526: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
527: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
528: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
529: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 530: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
531: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
532: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 533: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
534: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
535: <p>
536:
1.415 aanriot 537: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
538: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
539: 2005</a></strong>,
540: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
541: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
542: help of Thierry Thomas.
543: <p>
544:
1.420 deraadt 545: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
546: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
547: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
548: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
549: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
550: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
551: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
552: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
553: registration was mandatory.<br>
554: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 555: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 556: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
557: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
558: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 559: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 560: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
561: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
562: mechanism.
563: <p>
564:
1.414 bernd 565: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
566: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
567: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
568: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
569: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
570: <p>
571:
572: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
573: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
574: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
575: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
576: <p>
577:
1.410 wvdputte 578: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
579: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
580: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 581: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
582: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 583: <p>
584:
585: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
586: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
587: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
588: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 589: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 590: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
591: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
592: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
593: installed on your computer.
594: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 595: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 596: <p>
597:
1.404 wvdputte 598: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
599: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 600: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 601: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
602: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 603: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 604: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
605: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
606: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
607: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
608: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
609: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
610: <p>
611:
612: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
613: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
614: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
615: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
616: <p>
617:
1.403 henning 618: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
619: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 620: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 621: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
622: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
623: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
624: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
625: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
626: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
627: <p>
628:
1.388 tom 629: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
630: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
631: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 632: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 633: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
634: <p>
635:
1.385 mickey 636: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 637: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 638: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 639: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
640: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 641: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
642: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 643: and an excellent
644: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
645: If you want to see what happened previously, check
646: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
647: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
648: <p>
649:
1.382 pedro 650: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 651: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 652: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 653: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 654: <p>
655:
1.378 aanriot 656: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
657: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 658: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 659: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
660: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
661: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
662: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 663: <p>
664:
1.375 grunk 665: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
666: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 667: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 668: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
669: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
670: <p>
671:
1.374 grunk 672: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
673: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 674: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 675: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
676: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
677: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
678: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
679: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
680: <p>
681:
1.371 deraadt 682: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
683: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 684: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 685: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
686: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
687: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
688: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
689: He demonstrated how companies can easily
690: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
691: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
692: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
693: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
694: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
695: <p>
696:
1.366 martin 697: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
698: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
699: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
700: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
701: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
702: CDs and shirts.
703: <p>
704:
1.365 mcbride 705: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
706: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
707: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
708: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
709: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
710: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
711: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
712: <br>
713: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
714: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
715: <p>
716:
1.362 reyk 717: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
718: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
719: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
720: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
721: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
722: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
723: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
724: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
725: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
726: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
727: <p>
728:
1.358 mcbride 729: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
730: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
731: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
732: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
733: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
734: <p>
735:
1.357 henning 736: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
737: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
738: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
739: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
740: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
741: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
742: <p>
743:
1.384 tom 744: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 745: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 746: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 747: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
748: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
749: packages work in front of about 30 people.
750: <p>
751:
1.353 henning 752: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
753: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 754: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 755: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
756: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
757: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
758: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 759: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 760: <p>
761:
1.352 henning 762: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
763: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 764: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 765: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
766: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
767: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
768: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
769: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
770: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
771: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
772: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
773: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
774: available if you couldn't make it there.
775: <p>
776:
1.350 marius 777: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
778:
779: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 780: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 781: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
782: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
783: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
784: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
785: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 786: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 787: <p>
788:
1.345 henning 789: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
790: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 791: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 792: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
793: <p>
794:
1.344 martin 795: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
796: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 797: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 798: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
799: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
800: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
801: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
802: (in French) are available.
803: <p>
804:
1.337 deraadt 805: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
806: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 807: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 808: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
809: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 810: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 811: source firewalls.
812: <p>
813:
1.317 henning 814: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
815: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
816: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 817: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 818: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 819: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 820: <p>
821:
1.312 deraadt 822: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
823: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
824: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 825: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
826: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 827: <p>
828:
1.319 saad 829: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
830: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
831: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
832: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
833: <p>
834:
1.310 mickey 835: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 836: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 837: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 838: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 839: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 ! jason 840: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 841: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 842: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 843: <p>
1.312 deraadt 844:
1.308 deraadt 845: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
846: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
847: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
848: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 849: talks. Topics included
850: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 851: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
852: OpenBGPD, and pf.
853: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 854: <p>
855:
1.304 saad 856: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
857: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
858: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
859: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
860: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 861: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 862: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 863: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
864: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 865: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 866: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
867: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
868: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 869: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 870: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
871: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
872: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
873: <p>
1.301 saad 874: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
875: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
876: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
877: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
878: <p>
879: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
880: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
881: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
882: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
883: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
884: <p>
1.293 saad 885: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
886: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
887: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
888: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
889: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
890: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 891: french translation team.<br>
892: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
893: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
894: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
895: available.<br>
896: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 897: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
898: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
899: <p>
1.296 mcbride 900: </ul>
1.293 saad 901:
1.296 mcbride 902: <h3>2004</h3>
903:
904: <ul>
1.287 henning 905: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
906: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 907: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 908: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
909: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
910: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 911: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 912: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
913: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
914: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
915: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
916: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
917: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 918: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 919: driver.
920: <p>
1.248 deraadt 921:
1.286 kevlo 922: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 923: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 924: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
925: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
926: <p>
927:
1.285 deraadt 928: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
929: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
930: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
931: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
932: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
933: <p>
934:
1.283 saad 935: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
936: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
937: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
938: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
939: meeting of the
940: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
941: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 942: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 943: <p>
944:
1.282 henning 945: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
946: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
947: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
948: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
949: two days, on bgpd
950: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
951: ntpd
952: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
953: and signal handlers
954: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
955: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
956: <p>
957:
1.275 deraadt 958: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
959: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
960: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
961: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
962: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
963: Room B-02 of the
964: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
965: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
966: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
967: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
968: The talk was also given the following day at the
969: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
970: <p>
971:
1.271 henning 972: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
973: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
974: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 975: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
976: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 977: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 978: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 979: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 980: <p>
981:
982: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
983: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
984: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 985: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
986: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 987: <p>
988:
1.276 deraadt 989: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 990: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
991: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
992: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
993: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
994: <p>
995:
996: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 997: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
998: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 999: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1000: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1001: <p>
1002:
1003: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1005: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1006: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1007: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1008: <p>
1009:
1.268 krw 1010: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1011: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1012: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1013: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1014: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1015: <p>
1016:
1.375 grunk 1017: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1018: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1019: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1020: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1021: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1022: <p>
1023:
1024: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1025: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1026: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1027: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1028: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.265 wvdputte 1031: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1032: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1033: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1034: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1035: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1036: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1037: event."
1038: <br>
1039: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1040: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1041: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1042: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1043: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1044: <br>
1045: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1046: <p>
1047:
1.262 henning 1048: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1049: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1050: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1051: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1052: Henning's slides from his talks about
1053: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1054: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1055: are available.
1056: <p>
1057:
1.261 deraadt 1058: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1059: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1060: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1061: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1062: newly extended version of the
1063: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1064: For more information, see this
1065: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1066: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1067: <p>
1068:
1069:
1.257 saad 1070: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1071: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1072: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1073: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1074: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1078: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1079: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1080: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1081: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1082: <p>
1083:
1.256 mickey 1084: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1085: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1086: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1087: session.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.254 xsa 1090: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1091: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1092: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1093: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1094: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1095: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1096: a basic talk about pf.
1097: <p>
1098:
1.248 deraadt 1099: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1100: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1101: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1102: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1103: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1104: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1105: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1106: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1107: <p>
1108:
1.247 canacar 1109: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1110: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1111: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1112: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1113: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1114: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1115: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1116: projects were discussed.<br>
1117: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1118: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1119: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1120: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1121: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1122: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1123: <p>
1124:
1.242 henning 1125: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1126: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1127: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1128: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1129: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1130: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1131: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1132: and systrace
1.263 saad 1133: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1134: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1135: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1136: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1137: <p>
1138:
1.240 espie 1139: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1140: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1141: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1142: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1143: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1144: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1145: <p>
1146:
1147: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1148: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1149: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1150: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1151: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1152: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1153: <p>
1154: </ul>
1155:
1.188 henning 1156: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1157:
1158: <ul>
1.232 jose 1159: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1160: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1161: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1162: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1163: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1164: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1165: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1166: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1167: <p>
1.232 jose 1168:
1.228 jose 1169: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1170: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1171: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1172: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1173: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1174: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1175: with OpenBSD PF.
1176: <p>
1177:
1178: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1179: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1180: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1181: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1182: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1183: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1184: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1185: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1186: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1187: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1188: slides in PDF format </a>
1189: (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 1190: <p>
1191:
1.227 jose 1192: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1194: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1195: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1196: <p>
1197:
1198: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1199: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1200: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1201: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1202: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1203: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1204: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1205: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1206: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1207: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1208: in Internet worm defenses.
1209: <p>
1210:
1.224 miod 1211: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1212: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1213: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1214: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1215: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1216: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1217: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1218: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1219: OpenBSD.
1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1223: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1224: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1225: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1226: <p>
1227:
1228: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1229: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1230: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1231: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1232: <p>
1233:
1.219 jose 1234: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1235: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1236: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1237: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1238: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1239: <p>
1240:
1.218 jose 1241: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1242: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1243: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1244: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1245: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1246: <p>
1247:
1.214 henning 1248: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1249: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1250: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1251: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1252: <p>
1253:
1.213 jose 1254: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1255: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1256: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1257: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1258: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1259: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1260: <p>
1261:
1.211 jose 1262: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1263: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1264: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1265: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1266: <p>
1267:
1268: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1269: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1270: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1271: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1272: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1273: <p>
1274:
1.209 wvdputte 1275: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1276: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1277: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1278: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1279: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1280:
1.202 jason 1281: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1282: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1283: Conference</a></strong>,
1284: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1285: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1286: <ul>
1.216 jose 1287: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1288: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1289: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1290: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1291: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1292: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1293: </ul>
1294: <p>
1295:
1.201 deraadt 1296: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1297: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1298: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1299: session.
1300: <p>
1301:
1.216 jose 1302: <li><strong>
1303: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1304: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1305: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1306: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1307: <p>
1308:
1.216 jose 1309: <li><strong>
1310: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1311: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1312: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1313: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1314: <p>
1315:
1.216 jose 1316: <li><strong>
1317: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1318: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1319: 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 1320: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1321: <p>
1322:
1.216 jose 1323: <li><strong>
1324: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1325: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1326: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1327: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1328: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1329: user groups.
1330: <p>
1331:
1.236 jose 1332: <li><strong>
1333: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1334: Group</a></strong>,
1335: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1336: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1337: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1338: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1339: <p>
1340:
1.216 jose 1341: <li><strong>
1342: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1343: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1344: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1345: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1346: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1347: <p>
1348:
1.216 jose 1349: <li><strong>
1350: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1351: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1352: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1353: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1354: <p>
1.236 jose 1355: </ul>
1.185 miod 1356:
1.161 millert 1357: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1358:
1359: <ul>
1360: <li><strong>
1361: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1362: Congress</a></strong>,
1363: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1364: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1365: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1366: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1367: <p>
1.177 jason 1368:
1.216 jose 1369: <li><strong>
1370: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1371: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1372: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1373: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1374: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1375: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1376: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1377: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1378: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1379: <p>
1.178 pb 1380:
1.216 jose 1381: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1382: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1383: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1384: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1385: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1386: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1387: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1388: <p>
1389:
1.216 jose 1390: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1391: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1392: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1393: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1394: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1395: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1396: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1397: <p>
1398:
1399: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1400: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1401: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1402: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1403: Niels Provos presented his
1404: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1405: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1406: <p>
1.172 miod 1407:
1.216 jose 1408: <li><strong>
1409: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1410: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1411: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1412: <p>
1413:
1.216 jose 1414: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1415: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1416: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1417: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1418: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1419: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1420: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1421: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1422: <p>
1.168 miod 1423:
1.216 jose 1424: <li><strong>
1425: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1426: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1427: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1428: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1429: are available.
1.161 millert 1430: <p>
1431:
1.216 jose 1432: <li><strong>
1433: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1434: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1435: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1436: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1437: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1438: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1439: <p>
1440:
1.216 jose 1441: <li><strong>
1442: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1443: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1444: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1445: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1446: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1447: <p>
1.236 jose 1448: </ul>
1.164 millert 1449:
1.152 jakob 1450: <h3>2001</h3>
1451:
1.236 jose 1452: <ul>
1.216 jose 1453: <li><strong>
1454: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1455: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1456: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1457: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1458: <p>
1459:
1.216 jose 1460: <li><strong>
1461: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1462: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1463: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1464: <p>
1465:
1.158 deraadt 1466: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1467: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1468: 2001</a></strong>,
1469: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1470: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1471: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1472: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1473: <p>
1474:
1.216 jose 1475: <li><strong>
1476: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1477: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1478: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1479: <p>
1480:
1.201 deraadt 1481: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1482: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1483: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1484: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1485:
1.150 wvdputte 1486: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1487: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1488: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1489: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1490: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1491: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1492: <p>
1.137 aaron 1493:
1494: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1495: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1496: Conference</a></strong>,
1497: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1498: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1499: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1500: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1501: <p>
1502:
1503: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1504: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1505: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1506: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1507: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1508: <p>
1509:
1510: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1511: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1512: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1513: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1514: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1515: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1516: <p>
1517:
1518: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1519: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1520: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1521: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1522: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1523: <p>
1524:
1525: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1526: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1527: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1528: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1529: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1530: security community.
1531: <p>
1532:
1533: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1534: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1535: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1536: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1537: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1538: <p>
1539:
1540: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1541: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1542: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1543: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1544: <p>
1.236 jose 1545: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1546:
1.132 louis 1547: <h3>2000</h3>
1548:
1.236 jose 1549: <ul>
1.132 louis 1550: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1551: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1552: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1553: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1554: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1555: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1556: <p>
1557:
1558: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1559: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1560: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1561: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1562: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1563: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1564: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1565: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1566: <p>
1567:
1568: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1569: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1570: 2000</a></strong>,
1571: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1572: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1573: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1574: <p>
1.4 millert 1575:
1.132 louis 1576: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1577: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1578: Summit</a></strong>,
1579: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1580: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1581: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1582: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1583:
1584: <ul>
1.236 jose 1585: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1586: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1587: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1588: </ul>
1.4 millert 1589: <p>
1.132 louis 1590:
1.7 deraadt 1591: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1592: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1593: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1594: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1595: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1596: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1597: mind (drinks afterwards).
1598: <p>
1599:
1.216 jose 1600: <li><strong>
1601: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1602: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1603: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1604: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1605: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1606:
1.132 louis 1607: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1608: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1609: Revolution</a></strong>,
1610: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1611: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1612: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1613: <p>
1614:
1.132 louis 1615: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1616: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1617: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1618: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1619: <ul>
1.236 jose 1620: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1621: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1622: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1623: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1624: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1625: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1626: <p>
1.132 louis 1627:
1.10 provos 1628: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1629: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1630: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1631: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1632: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1633: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1634: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1635: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1636: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1637: <br>
1638: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1639: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1640: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1641:
1.132 louis 1642: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1643: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1644: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1645: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1646: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1647: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1648: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1649: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1650: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1651: and spoke about
1652: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1653: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1654: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1655: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1656: <p>
1.132 louis 1657:
1.6 deraadt 1658: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1659: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1660: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1661: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1662: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1663: <br>
1664: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1665: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1666: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1667: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1668:
1.216 jose 1669: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1670: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1671: Conference.</a></strong>,
1672: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1673: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1674: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1675: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1676: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1677: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1678: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1679: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1680: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1681: <ul>
1682:
1683: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1684: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1685: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1686: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1687: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1688:
1689: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1690: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1691: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1692: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1693: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1694:
1.132 louis 1695: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1696: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1697: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1698: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1699: <p>
1700:
1.132 louis 1701: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1702: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1703: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1704: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1705: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1706: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1707: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1708: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1709:
1.132 louis 1710: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1711: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1712: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1713: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1714: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1715: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1716: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1717: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1718: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1719:
1.17 deraadt 1720: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1721: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1722: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1723: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1724: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1725: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1726: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1727: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1728: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1729:
1.23 niklas 1730: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1731: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1732: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1733: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1734: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1735: efforts.
1736: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1737: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1738: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1739: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1740: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1741: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1742:
1.132 louis 1743: <li><strong>
1744: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1745: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1746: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1747: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1748: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1749: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1750: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1751: <p>
1.23 niklas 1752:
1.31 deraadt 1753: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1754: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1755: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1756: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1757: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1758: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1759: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1760: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1761: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1762: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1763:
1.201 deraadt 1764: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1765: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1766: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1767: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1768: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1769: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1770: <p>
1.236 jose 1771: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1772:
1.132 louis 1773: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1774:
1.236 jose 1775: <ul>
1.216 jose 1776: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1777: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1778: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1779: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1780: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1781: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1782: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1783: <p>
1784:
1.216 jose 1785: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1786: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1787: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1788: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1789: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1790: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1791: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1792: There were many other OpenBSD
1793: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1794: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1795:
1796: <ul>
1797: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1798: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1799: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1801: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1802: </ul>
1803: <p>
1804:
1805: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1806: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1807: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1808: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1809: <p>
1810:
1811: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1812: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1813: Software '99</a></strong>,
1814: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1815: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1816: <a
1.375 grunk 1817: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1818: <p>
1819:
1820: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1821: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1822: 1999</a></strong>,
1823: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1824: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1825: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1826: <p>
1827:
1.236 jose 1828: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1829: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1830: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1831: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1832: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1833: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1834: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1835: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1836: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1837: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1838: conference in Stockholm.
1839: <p>
1840:
1841: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1842: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1843: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1844: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1845: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1846: coordinated.
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1850: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1851: Security</a></strong>,
1852: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1853: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1854: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1855: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1856: significant security roles.
1857: <p>
1858:
1859: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1860: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1861: meeting</a></strong>,
1862: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1863: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1864: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1865: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1866: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1867: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1868: <p>
1.45 jason 1869:
1.132 louis 1870: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1871: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1872: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1873: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1874: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1875: <p>
1.132 louis 1876:
1.236 jose 1877: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1878: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1879: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1880: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1881: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1882: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1883: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1884: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1885: June.)
1.132 louis 1886: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1887: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1888: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1889:
1.375 grunk 1890: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1891: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1892: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1893: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1894: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1895: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1896: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1897: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1898: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1899: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1900: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1901: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1902: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1903: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1904: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1905: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1906: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1907: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1908: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1909: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1910: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1911: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1912: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1913: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1914: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1915: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1916: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1917: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1918:
1.51 deraadt 1919: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1920: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1921: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1922: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1923: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1924: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1925: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1926: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1927: <p>
1928:
1.53 jakob 1929: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1930: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1931: meeting</a></strong>,
1932: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1933: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1934: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1935: <p>
1936:
1.132 louis 1937: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1938: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1939: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1940: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1941: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1942: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1943: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1944: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1945: <p>
1.236 jose 1946: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1947:
1.132 louis 1948: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1949:
1.236 jose 1950: <ul>
1.132 louis 1951: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1952: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1953: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1954: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1955: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1956: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1957: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1958: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1959: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1960: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1961: <p>
1962:
1.236 jose 1963: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1964: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1965: Conference</a></strong>,
1966: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1967: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1968: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1969: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1970: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1971: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1972: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1973: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1974: <br>
1975: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1976: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1977: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1978: <p>
1979:
1.73 deraadt 1980: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1981: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1982: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1983: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1984: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1986: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1987: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1988: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1989:
1.236 jose 1990: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1991: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1992: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1993: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1994: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1995: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1996: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1997: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1998:
1.80 deraadt 1999: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2000: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2001: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2002: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2003: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2004: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2005: <p>
2006:
1.93 louis 2007: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2008: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2009: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2010: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2011: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2012: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2013: <p>
2014:
1.216 jose 2015: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2016: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2017: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2018: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2019: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2020: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2021: <p>
2022:
1.236 jose 2023: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2024: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2025: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2026: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2027: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2028: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2029: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2030: <br>
2031: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2032: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2033: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2034: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2035: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2036:
1.236 jose 2037: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2038: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2039: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2040: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2041: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2042: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2043: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2044: <p>
2045:
1.236 jose 2046: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2047: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2048: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2049: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2050: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2051: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2052: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2053: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2054: <br>
2055: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2056: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2057: <p>
2058:
1.105 wvdputte 2059: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2060: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2061: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2062: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2063: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2064: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2065: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2066: <br>
1.132 louis 2067: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2068: <p>
1.236 jose 2069: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2070:
1.132 louis 2071: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2072:
1.236 jose 2073: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2074: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2075: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2076: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2077: Niels held a
2078: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2079: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2080: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2081: <p>
1.132 louis 2082:
1.236 jose 2083: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2084: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2085: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2086: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2087: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2088: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2089:
1.236 jose 2090: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2091: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2092: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2093: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2094: <br>
2095: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2096: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2097: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2098: <p>
2099:
1.125 deraadt 2100: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2101: <a
2102: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2103: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2104: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2105: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2106: </ul>
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2111: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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