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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:
1.515 tom 45: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
46: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 ! deraadt 47: Dec 2 - 3, 2006, <a href="http://www.riminiturismo.com/metha/scheda.asp?idHotel=16&lang=uk">CourtYard Venice</a> Airport, Tessera/Venice - Italy<br>
1.568 mbalmer 48: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
49: Most talks are by OpenBSD developers, but there will also be an impressive
50: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
51: developers are:
52: <p>
1.535 deraadt 53: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 54: <li>Claudio Jeker: <i>Network changes in OpenBSD</i>
1.552 mbalmer 55: <li>Marc Balmer: <i>Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</i>
1.537 deraadt 56: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
57: <li>Jonathan Gray: <i>Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</i>
1.543 mbalmer 58: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.549 marco 59: <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 60: <li>Can Erkin Acar: <i>Developing Secure Software</i>
1.555 mbalmer 61: <li>Michele Marchetto: <i>OpenRIPD</i>
1.535 deraadt 62: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 63: <p>
1.568 mbalmer 64: Also present will be jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, reyk, grunk,
65: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there will be an OpenBSD booth
66: run by the usual suspects and you can buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
67: stuff.
68: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 69:
1.510 wvdputte 70: <li><strong><a name=23c3></a>
1.512 wvdputte 71: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
1.510 wvdputte 72: Berlin</a></strong>,
1.513 steven 73: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
74: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.510 wvdputte 75: closing event.
76: <p>
1.565 krw 77: </ul>
1.510 wvdputte 78:
1.152 jakob 79: <hr>
80:
81: <h2>Past events:</h2>
82:
1.455 grunk 83: <h3>2006</h3>
84: <ul>
1.559 jason 85:
1.565 krw 86: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
87: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
88: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
89: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 90: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
91: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 92: <p>
93:
1.559 jason 94: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
95: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
96: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
97: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
98: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 99: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 100: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 101: <ul>
102: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 103: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
104: <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>]
105: <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>]
106: <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 107: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
108: </ul>
109: <p>
110:
1.556 fgsch 111: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
112: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
113: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 114: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
115: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 116: <p>
117:
1.553 grunk 118: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
119: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
120: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
121: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
122: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
123: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
124: and some other volunteers.
125: <p>
126:
1.551 deraadt 127: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
128: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
129: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
130: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
131: vendors to open up their documentation.
132: <p>
133:
1.550 henning 134: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
135: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
136: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
137: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
138: <p>
139:
1.547 aanriot 140: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
141: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
142: 2006</a></strong>,
143: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
144: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
145: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
146: <p>
147:
1.546 mcbride 148: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
149: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
150: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
151: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
152: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
153: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
154: and
155: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
156: <p>
157:
1.532 wvdputte 158: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
159: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
160: </a></strong>,
161: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
162: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
163: <p>
164:
1.528 wvdputte 165: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
166: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
167: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
168: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
169: <p>
170:
1.525 wvdputte 171: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
172: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
173: </strong>,
174: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
175: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
176: <p>
177:
1.521 fkr 178: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
179: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
180: </strong>,
181: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
182: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
183: <p>
184:
1.518 tedu 185: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
186: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
187: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
188: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
189: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
190: <p>
191:
192: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
193: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
194: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
195: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
196: <p>
1.475 deraadt 197:
1.510 wvdputte 198: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
199: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
200: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
201: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
202: Serge Basterot.
203: <p>
204:
1.508 wvdputte 205: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
206: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
207: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
208: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 209: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 210: Tim Kornau.
211: <p>
212:
1.507 mbalmer 213: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
214: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
215: </strong>,
216: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
217: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
218: <p>
219:
1.506 deraadt 220: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 221: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 222: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
223: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
224: gave a talk
225: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
226: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
227: and live demonstration on redundant failover
228: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
229: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
230: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
231: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
232: <p>
233:
1.502 mbalmer 234: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
235: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
236: </strong>
237: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
238: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 239: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 240: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
241: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
245: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
246: </strong>,
247: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
248: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
249: <p>
250:
1.500 deraadt 251: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
252: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
253: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 254: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
255: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 256: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
257: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
258: <p>
259:
1.491 bernd 260: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
261: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
262: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
263: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
264: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
265: PF tutorial</a>.
266: <p>
267:
1.490 reyk 268: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
269: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
270: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
271: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
272: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
273: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
274: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
275: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
276: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
277: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
278: <p>
279:
1.489 bernd 280: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
281: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
282: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
283: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
284: the overall system and its great features.
285: <p>
286:
1.484 mbalmer 287: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
288: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
289: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
290: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
291: <ul>
292: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
293: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 294: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 295: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
296: distributions...
297: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
298: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 299: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 300: infrastructure.
301: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
302: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
303: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
304: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
305: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
306: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
307: </ul>
308: <br>
309: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 310: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 311: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
312: <br>
313: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
314: usual suspects.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
318: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
319: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
320: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
321: <p>
322:
1.486 mickey 323: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
324: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
325: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
326: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 327: (<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 328: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
329: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
330: <p>
331:
1.484 mbalmer 332: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
333: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
334: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
335: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
336: talk. There is a
337: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
338: <p>
339:
1.478 mbalmer 340: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
341: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
342: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
343: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
344: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
345: well received.
346: <br>
347: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
348: and we could draw a lot of attention.
349: <p>
350:
1.479 deraadt 351: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
352: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
353: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
354: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 355: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
356: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
357: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 358: only).
359: <p>
360:
1.475 deraadt 361: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
362: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
363: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
364: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
365: Jason Dixon presented
366: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
367: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
368: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
369: <br>
370: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
371: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
375: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
376: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
377: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
378: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
379: <br>
380: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
381: on sale.
382: <p>
383:
1.469 tom 384: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
385: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
386: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
387: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
388: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
389: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
390: Peter N. M. Hansteen
391: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
392: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
393: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
394: drivers for OpenBSD".
395: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
396: <p>
397:
1.459 henning 398: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
399: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
400: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
401: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
402: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
403: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
404: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
405: <p>
406:
1.457 wvdputte 407: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
408: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
409: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
410: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 411: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 412: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
413: BSD dinner. More details and
414: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 415: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 416: <p>
417:
418: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
419: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
420: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
421: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
422: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
423: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
424: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
425: <p>
1.455 grunk 426:
1.456 henning 427: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
428: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
429: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
430: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
431: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
432: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
433: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
434: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
435: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
436: <p>
437:
1.455 grunk 438: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
439: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
440: </strong>,
441: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
442: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
443: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
444: <p>
445: </ul>
446:
1.296 mcbride 447: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 448:
449: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 450:
1.445 martin 451: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
452: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
453: Berlin</a></strong>,
454: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
455: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
456: <p>
457:
1.435 matthieu 458: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
459: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
460: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
461: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
462: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 463: event.
1.444 grunk 464: The program included a
465: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 466: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
467: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 468: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
469: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 470: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 471: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 472: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 473: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 474: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 475: <p>
1.435 matthieu 476: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
477: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
478: <p>
479:
1.434 bernd 480: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
481: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
482: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
483: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
484: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
485: <p>
486:
1.441 niallo 487: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
488: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
489: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
490: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
491: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
492: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
493: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
494: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
495: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
496: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
497: scripts.
498: <p>
499:
1.424 mbalmer 500: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
501: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
502: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 503: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
504: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
505: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 506: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 507: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 508: talks, including
509: <ul>
510: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
511: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
512: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
513: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
514: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
515: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 516: <p>
517:
518: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
519: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
520: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 521: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 522: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
523: <p>
524:
1.418 djm 525: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
526: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
527: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
528: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
529: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
530: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
531: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 532: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
533: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
534: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 535: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
536: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
537: <p>
538:
1.415 aanriot 539: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
540: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
541: 2005</a></strong>,
542: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
543: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
544: help of Thierry Thomas.
545: <p>
546:
1.420 deraadt 547: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
548: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
549: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
550: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
551: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
552: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
553: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
554: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
555: registration was mandatory.<br>
556: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 557: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 558: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
559: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
560: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 561: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 562: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
563: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
564: mechanism.
565: <p>
566:
1.414 bernd 567: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
568: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
569: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
570: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
571: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
572: <p>
573:
574: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
575: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
576: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
577: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
578: <p>
579:
1.410 wvdputte 580: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
581: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
582: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 583: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
584: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 585: <p>
586:
587: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
588: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
589: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
590: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 591: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 592: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
593: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
594: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
595: installed on your computer.
596: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 597: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 598: <p>
599:
1.404 wvdputte 600: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
601: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 602: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 603: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
604: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 605: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 606: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
607: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
608: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
609: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
610: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
611: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
612: <p>
613:
614: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
615: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
616: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
617: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
618: <p>
619:
1.403 henning 620: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
621: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 622: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 623: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
624: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
625: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
626: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
627: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
628: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
629: <p>
630:
1.388 tom 631: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
632: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
633: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 634: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 635: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
636: <p>
637:
1.385 mickey 638: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 639: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 640: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 641: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
642: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 643: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
644: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 645: and an excellent
646: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
647: If you want to see what happened previously, check
648: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
649: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
650: <p>
651:
1.382 pedro 652: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 653: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 654: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 655: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 656: <p>
657:
1.378 aanriot 658: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
659: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 660: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 661: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
662: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
663: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
664: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 665: <p>
666:
1.375 grunk 667: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
668: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 669: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 670: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
671: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
672: <p>
673:
1.374 grunk 674: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
675: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 676: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 677: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
678: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
679: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
680: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
681: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
682: <p>
683:
1.371 deraadt 684: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
685: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 686: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 687: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
688: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
689: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
690: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
691: He demonstrated how companies can easily
692: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
693: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
694: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
695: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
696: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
697: <p>
698:
1.366 martin 699: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
700: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
701: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
702: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
703: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
704: CDs and shirts.
705: <p>
706:
1.365 mcbride 707: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
708: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
709: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
710: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
711: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
712: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
713: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
714: <br>
715: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
716: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
717: <p>
718:
1.362 reyk 719: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
720: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
721: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
722: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
723: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
724: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
725: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
726: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
727: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
728: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
729: <p>
730:
1.358 mcbride 731: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
732: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
733: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
734: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
735: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
736: <p>
737:
1.357 henning 738: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
739: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
740: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
741: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
742: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
743: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
744: <p>
745:
1.384 tom 746: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 747: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 748: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 749: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
750: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
751: packages work in front of about 30 people.
752: <p>
753:
1.353 henning 754: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
755: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 756: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 757: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
758: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
759: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
760: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 761: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 762: <p>
763:
1.352 henning 764: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
765: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 766: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 767: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
768: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
769: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
770: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
771: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
772: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
773: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
774: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
775: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
776: available if you couldn't make it there.
777: <p>
778:
1.350 marius 779: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
780:
781: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 782: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 783: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
784: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
785: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
786: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
787: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 788: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 789: <p>
790:
1.345 henning 791: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
792: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 793: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 794: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
795: <p>
796:
1.344 martin 797: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
798: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 799: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 800: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
801: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
802: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
803: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
804: (in French) are available.
805: <p>
806:
1.337 deraadt 807: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
808: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 809: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 810: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
811: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 812: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 813: source firewalls.
814: <p>
815:
1.317 henning 816: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
817: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
818: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 819: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 820: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 821: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 822: <p>
823:
1.312 deraadt 824: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
825: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
826: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 827: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
828: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 829: <p>
830:
1.319 saad 831: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
832: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
833: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
834: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
835: <p>
836:
1.310 mickey 837: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 838: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 839: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 840: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 841: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 842: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 843: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 844: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 845: <p>
1.312 deraadt 846:
1.308 deraadt 847: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
848: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
849: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
850: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 851: talks. Topics included
852: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 853: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
854: OpenBGPD, and pf.
855: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 856: <p>
857:
1.304 saad 858: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
859: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
860: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
861: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
862: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 863: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 864: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 865: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
866: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 867: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 868: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
869: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
870: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 871: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 872: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
873: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
874: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
875: <p>
1.301 saad 876: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
877: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
878: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
879: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
880: <p>
881: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
882: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
883: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
884: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
885: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
886: <p>
1.293 saad 887: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
888: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
889: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
890: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
891: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
892: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 893: french translation team.<br>
894: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
895: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
896: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
897: available.<br>
898: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 899: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
900: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
901: <p>
1.296 mcbride 902: </ul>
1.293 saad 903:
1.296 mcbride 904: <h3>2004</h3>
905:
906: <ul>
1.287 henning 907: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
908: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 909: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 910: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
911: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
912: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 913: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 914: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
915: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
916: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
917: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
918: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
919: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 920: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 921: driver.
922: <p>
1.248 deraadt 923:
1.286 kevlo 924: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 925: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 926: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
927: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
928: <p>
929:
1.285 deraadt 930: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
931: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
932: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
933: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
934: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
935: <p>
936:
1.283 saad 937: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
938: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
939: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
940: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
941: meeting of the
942: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
943: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 944: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 945: <p>
946:
1.282 henning 947: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
948: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
949: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
950: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
951: two days, on bgpd
952: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
953: ntpd
954: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
955: and signal handlers
956: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
957: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
958: <p>
959:
1.275 deraadt 960: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
961: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
962: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
963: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
964: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
965: Room B-02 of the
966: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
967: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
968: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
969: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
970: The talk was also given the following day at the
971: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
972: <p>
973:
1.271 henning 974: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
975: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
976: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 977: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
978: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 979: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 980: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 981: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 982: <p>
983:
984: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
985: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
986: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 987: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
988: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 989: <p>
990:
1.276 deraadt 991: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 992: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
993: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
994: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
995: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
996: <p>
997:
998: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 999: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1000: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1001: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1002: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1006: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1007: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1008: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1009: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1010: <p>
1011:
1.268 krw 1012: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1013: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1014: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1015: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1016: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.375 grunk 1019: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1020: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1021: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1022: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1023: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1027: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1028: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1029: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1030: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1031: <p>
1032:
1.265 wvdputte 1033: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1034: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1035: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1036: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1037: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1038: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1039: event."
1040: <br>
1041: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1042: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1043: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1044: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1045: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1046: <br>
1047: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1048: <p>
1049:
1.262 henning 1050: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1051: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1052: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1053: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1054: Henning's slides from his talks about
1055: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1056: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1057: are available.
1058: <p>
1059:
1.261 deraadt 1060: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1061: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1062: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1063: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1064: newly extended version of the
1065: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1066: For more information, see this
1067: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1068: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1069: <p>
1070:
1071:
1.257 saad 1072: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1073: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1074: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1075: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1076: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1077: <p>
1078:
1079: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1080: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1081: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1082: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1083: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1084: <p>
1085:
1.256 mickey 1086: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1087: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1088: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1089: session.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.254 xsa 1092: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1093: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1094: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1095: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1096: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1097: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1098: a basic talk about pf.
1099: <p>
1100:
1.248 deraadt 1101: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1102: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1103: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1104: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1105: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1106: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1107: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1108: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1109: <p>
1110:
1.247 canacar 1111: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1112: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1113: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1114: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1115: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1116: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1117: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1118: projects were discussed.<br>
1119: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1120: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1121: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1122: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1123: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1124: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1125: <p>
1126:
1.242 henning 1127: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1128: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1129: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1130: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1131: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1132: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1133: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1134: and systrace
1.263 saad 1135: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1136: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1137: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1138: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1139: <p>
1140:
1.240 espie 1141: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1142: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1143: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1144: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1145: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1146: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1147: <p>
1148:
1149: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1150: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1151: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1152: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1153: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1154: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1155: <p>
1156: </ul>
1157:
1.188 henning 1158: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1159:
1160: <ul>
1.232 jose 1161: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1162: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1163: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1164: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1165: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1166: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1167: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1168: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1169: <p>
1.232 jose 1170:
1.228 jose 1171: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1172: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1173: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1174: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1175: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1176: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1177: with OpenBSD PF.
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1181: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1182: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1183: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1184: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1185: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1186: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1187: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1188: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1189: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1190: slides in PDF format </a>
1191: (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 1192: <p>
1193:
1.227 jose 1194: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1195: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1196: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1197: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1198: <p>
1199:
1200: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1201: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1202: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1203: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1204: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1205: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1206: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1207: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1208: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1209: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1210: in Internet worm defenses.
1211: <p>
1212:
1.224 miod 1213: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1214: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1215: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1216: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1217: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1218: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1219: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1220: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1221: OpenBSD.
1222: <p>
1223:
1224: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1225: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1226: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1227: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1228: <p>
1229:
1230: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1231: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1232: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1233: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1234: <p>
1235:
1.219 jose 1236: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1237: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1238: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1239: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1240: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.218 jose 1243: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1244: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1245: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1246: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1247: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1248: <p>
1249:
1.214 henning 1250: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1251: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1252: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1253: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1254: <p>
1255:
1.213 jose 1256: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1257: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1258: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1259: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1260: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1261: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1262: <p>
1263:
1.211 jose 1264: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1265: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1266: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1267: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1268: <p>
1269:
1270: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1271: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1272: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1273: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1274: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.209 wvdputte 1277: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1278: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1279: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1280: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1281: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1282:
1.202 jason 1283: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1284: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1285: Conference</a></strong>,
1286: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1287: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1288: <ul>
1.216 jose 1289: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1290: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1291: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1292: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1293: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1294: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1295: </ul>
1296: <p>
1297:
1.201 deraadt 1298: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1299: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1300: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1301: session.
1302: <p>
1303:
1.216 jose 1304: <li><strong>
1305: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1306: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1307: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1308: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1309: <p>
1310:
1.216 jose 1311: <li><strong>
1312: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1313: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1314: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1315: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1316: <p>
1317:
1.216 jose 1318: <li><strong>
1319: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1320: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1321: 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 1322: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1323: <p>
1324:
1.216 jose 1325: <li><strong>
1326: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1327: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1328: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1329: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1330: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1331: user groups.
1332: <p>
1333:
1.236 jose 1334: <li><strong>
1335: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1336: Group</a></strong>,
1337: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1338: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1339: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1340: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1341: <p>
1342:
1.216 jose 1343: <li><strong>
1344: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1345: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1346: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1347: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1348: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1349: <p>
1350:
1.216 jose 1351: <li><strong>
1352: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1353: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1354: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1355: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1356: <p>
1.236 jose 1357: </ul>
1.185 miod 1358:
1.161 millert 1359: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1360:
1361: <ul>
1362: <li><strong>
1363: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1364: Congress</a></strong>,
1365: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1366: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1367: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1368: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1369: <p>
1.177 jason 1370:
1.216 jose 1371: <li><strong>
1372: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1373: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1374: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1375: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1376: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1377: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1378: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1379: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1380: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1381: <p>
1.178 pb 1382:
1.216 jose 1383: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1385: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1386: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1387: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1388: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1389: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1390: <p>
1391:
1.216 jose 1392: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1393: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1394: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1395: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1396: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1397: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1398: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1399: <p>
1400:
1401: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1402: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1403: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1404: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1405: Niels Provos presented his
1406: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1407: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1408: <p>
1.172 miod 1409:
1.216 jose 1410: <li><strong>
1411: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1412: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1413: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1414: <p>
1415:
1.216 jose 1416: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1417: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1418: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1419: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1420: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1421: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1422: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1423: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1424: <p>
1.168 miod 1425:
1.216 jose 1426: <li><strong>
1427: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1428: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1429: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1430: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1431: are available.
1.161 millert 1432: <p>
1433:
1.216 jose 1434: <li><strong>
1435: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1436: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1437: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1438: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1439: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1440: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1441: <p>
1442:
1.216 jose 1443: <li><strong>
1444: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1445: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1446: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1447: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1448: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1449: <p>
1.236 jose 1450: </ul>
1.164 millert 1451:
1.152 jakob 1452: <h3>2001</h3>
1453:
1.236 jose 1454: <ul>
1.216 jose 1455: <li><strong>
1456: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1457: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1458: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1459: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1460: <p>
1461:
1.216 jose 1462: <li><strong>
1463: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1464: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1465: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1466: <p>
1467:
1.158 deraadt 1468: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1469: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1470: 2001</a></strong>,
1471: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1472: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1473: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1474: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1475: <p>
1476:
1.216 jose 1477: <li><strong>
1478: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1479: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1480: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1481: <p>
1482:
1.201 deraadt 1483: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1484: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1485: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1486: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1487:
1.150 wvdputte 1488: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1489: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1490: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1491: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1492: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1493: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1494: <p>
1.137 aaron 1495:
1496: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1497: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1498: Conference</a></strong>,
1499: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1500: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1501: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1502: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1503: <p>
1504:
1505: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1506: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1507: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1508: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1509: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1510: <p>
1511:
1512: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1513: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1514: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1515: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1516: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1517: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1518: <p>
1519:
1520: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1521: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1522: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1523: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1524: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1525: <p>
1526:
1527: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1528: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1529: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1530: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1531: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1532: security community.
1533: <p>
1534:
1535: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1536: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1537: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1538: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1539: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1540: <p>
1541:
1542: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1543: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1544: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1545: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1546: <p>
1.236 jose 1547: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1548:
1.132 louis 1549: <h3>2000</h3>
1550:
1.236 jose 1551: <ul>
1.132 louis 1552: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1553: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1554: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1555: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1556: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1557: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1558: <p>
1559:
1560: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1561: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1562: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1563: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1564: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1565: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1566: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1567: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1568: <p>
1569:
1570: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1571: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1572: 2000</a></strong>,
1573: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1574: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1575: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1576: <p>
1.4 millert 1577:
1.132 louis 1578: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1579: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1580: Summit</a></strong>,
1581: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1582: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1583: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1584: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1585:
1586: <ul>
1.236 jose 1587: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1588: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1589: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1590: </ul>
1.4 millert 1591: <p>
1.132 louis 1592:
1.7 deraadt 1593: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1594: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1595: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1596: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1597: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1598: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1599: mind (drinks afterwards).
1600: <p>
1601:
1.216 jose 1602: <li><strong>
1603: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1604: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1605: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1606: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1607: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1608:
1.132 louis 1609: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1610: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1611: Revolution</a></strong>,
1612: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1613: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1614: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1615: <p>
1616:
1.132 louis 1617: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1618: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1619: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1620: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1621: <ul>
1.236 jose 1622: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1623: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1624: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1625: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1626: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1627: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1628: <p>
1.132 louis 1629:
1.10 provos 1630: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1631: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1632: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1633: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1634: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1635: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1636: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1637: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1638: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1639: <br>
1640: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1641: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1642: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1643:
1.132 louis 1644: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1645: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1646: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1647: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1648: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1649: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1650: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1651: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1652: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1653: and spoke about
1654: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1655: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1656: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1657: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1658: <p>
1.132 louis 1659:
1.6 deraadt 1660: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1661: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1662: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1663: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1664: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1665: <br>
1666: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1667: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1668: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1669: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1670:
1.216 jose 1671: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1672: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1673: Conference.</a></strong>,
1674: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1675: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1676: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1677: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1678: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1679: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1680: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1681: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1682: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1683: <ul>
1684:
1685: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1686: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1687: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1688: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1689: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1690:
1691: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1692: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1693: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1694: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1695: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1696:
1.132 louis 1697: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1698: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1699: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1700: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1701: <p>
1702:
1.132 louis 1703: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1704: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1705: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1706: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1707: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1708: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1709: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1710: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1711:
1.132 louis 1712: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1713: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1714: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1715: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1716: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1717: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1718: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1719: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1720: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1721:
1.17 deraadt 1722: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1723: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1724: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1725: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1726: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1727: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1728: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1729: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1730: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1731:
1.23 niklas 1732: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1733: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1734: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1735: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1736: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1737: efforts.
1738: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1739: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1740: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1741: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1742: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1743: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1744:
1.132 louis 1745: <li><strong>
1746: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1747: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1748: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1749: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1750: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1751: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1752: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1753: <p>
1.23 niklas 1754:
1.31 deraadt 1755: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1756: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1757: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1758: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1759: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1760: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1761: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1762: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1763: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1764: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1765:
1.201 deraadt 1766: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1767: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1768: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1769: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1770: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1771: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1772: <p>
1.236 jose 1773: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1774:
1.132 louis 1775: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1776:
1.236 jose 1777: <ul>
1.216 jose 1778: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1779: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1780: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1781: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1782: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1783: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1784: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1785: <p>
1786:
1.216 jose 1787: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1789: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1790: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1791: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1792: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1793: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1794: There were many other OpenBSD
1795: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1796: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1797:
1798: <ul>
1799: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1801: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1802: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1803: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1804: </ul>
1805: <p>
1806:
1807: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1808: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1809: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1810: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1811: <p>
1812:
1813: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1814: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1815: Software '99</a></strong>,
1816: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1817: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1818: <a
1.375 grunk 1819: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1820: <p>
1821:
1822: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1823: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1824: 1999</a></strong>,
1825: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1826: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1827: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1828: <p>
1829:
1.236 jose 1830: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1831: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1832: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1833: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1834: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1835: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1836: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1837: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1838: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1839: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1840: conference in Stockholm.
1841: <p>
1842:
1843: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1844: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1845: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1846: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1847: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1848: coordinated.
1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1852: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1853: Security</a></strong>,
1854: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1855: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1856: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1857: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1858: significant security roles.
1859: <p>
1860:
1861: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1862: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1863: meeting</a></strong>,
1864: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1865: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1866: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1867: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1868: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1869: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1870: <p>
1.45 jason 1871:
1.132 louis 1872: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1873: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1874: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1875: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1876: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1877: <p>
1.132 louis 1878:
1.236 jose 1879: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1880: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1881: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1882: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1883: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1884: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1885: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1886: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1887: June.)
1.132 louis 1888: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1889: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1890: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1891:
1.375 grunk 1892: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1893: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1894: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1895: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1896: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1897: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1898: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1899: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1900: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1901: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1902: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1903: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1904: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1905: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1906: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1907: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1908: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1909: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1910: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1911: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1912: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1913: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1914: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1915: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1917: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1918: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1919: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1920:
1.51 deraadt 1921: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1922: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1923: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1924: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1925: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1926: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1927: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1928: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1929: <p>
1930:
1.53 jakob 1931: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1932: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1933: meeting</a></strong>,
1934: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1935: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1936: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1937: <p>
1938:
1.132 louis 1939: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1940: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1941: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1942: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1943: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1944: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1945: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1946: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1947: <p>
1.236 jose 1948: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1949:
1.132 louis 1950: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1951:
1.236 jose 1952: <ul>
1.132 louis 1953: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1954: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1955: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1956: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1957: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1958: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1959: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1960: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1961: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1962: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1963: <p>
1964:
1.236 jose 1965: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1966: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1967: Conference</a></strong>,
1968: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 1969: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
1970: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
1971: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 1972: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
1973: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 1974: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
1975: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
1976: <br>
1977: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
1978: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
1979: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 1980: <p>
1981:
1.73 deraadt 1982: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1983: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 1984: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1985: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 1986: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 1987: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 1988: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 1989: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 1990: <p>
1.73 deraadt 1991:
1.236 jose 1992: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 1993: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1994: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
1995: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
1996: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
1997: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
1998: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 1999: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2000:
1.80 deraadt 2001: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2002: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2003: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2004: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2005: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2006: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2007: <p>
2008:
1.93 louis 2009: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2010: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2011: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2012: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2013: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2014: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2015: <p>
2016:
1.216 jose 2017: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2018: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2019: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2020: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2021: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2022: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2023: <p>
2024:
1.236 jose 2025: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2026: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2027: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2028: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2029: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2030: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2031: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2032: <br>
2033: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2034: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2035: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2036: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2037: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2038:
1.236 jose 2039: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2040: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2041: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2042: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2043: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2044: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2045: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2046: <p>
2047:
1.236 jose 2048: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2049: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2050: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2051: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2052: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2053: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2054: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2055: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2056: <br>
2057: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2058: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2059: <p>
2060:
1.105 wvdputte 2061: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2062: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2063: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2064: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2065: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2066: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2067: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2068: <br>
1.132 louis 2069: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2070: <p>
1.236 jose 2071: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2072:
1.132 louis 2073: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2074:
1.236 jose 2075: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2076: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2077: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2078: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2079: Niels held a
2080: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2081: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2082: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2083: <p>
1.132 louis 2084:
1.236 jose 2085: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2086: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2087: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2088: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2089: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2090: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2091:
1.236 jose 2092: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2093: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2094: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2095: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2096: <br>
2097: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2098: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2099: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2100: <p>
2101:
1.125 deraadt 2102: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2103: <a
2104: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2105: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2106: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2107: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2108: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2109:
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