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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:
1.579 wvdputte 45: <li><strong><a name=moscow2006></a>
46: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
47: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
48: For details, please email <a href=mailto:grange@opensd.org>Grange</a>
49: <p>
50:
1.577 mbalmer 51: <li><strong><a name=23c3></a>
52: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
53: Berlin</a></strong>,
54: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
55: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.578 martin 56: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, reyk, sturm, uwe, martin and
1.577 mbalmer 57: wvdputte will be
58: there to chat with you and discuss OpenBSD stuff. More OpenBSD developers will
59: likely step in.
60: <p>
61: </ul>
62:
63: <hr>
64:
65: <h2>Past events:</h2>
66:
67: <h3>2006</h3>
68: <ul>
69:
1.515 tom 70: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
71: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 72: 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 73: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.577 mbalmer 74: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 75: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 76: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 77: <p>
1.535 deraadt 78: <ul>
1.581 claudio 79: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
80: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 81: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
82: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.537 deraadt 83: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
1.584 ! jsg 84: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
! 85: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 86: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.578 martin 87: <li>David Gwynne: <i>The OpenBSD Culture</i> and he also filled in for Marco's <i>Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</i> talk.
1.582 michele 88: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
89: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 90: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 91: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
92: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 93: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 94: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 95: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
96: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
97: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 98: stuff.
99: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 100:
1.575 reyk 101: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
102: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
103: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
104: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
105: as a reference project for secure software.
106: <p>
107:
1.583 henning 108: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
109: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
110: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
111: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
112: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
113: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
114: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
115: <p>
116:
1.565 krw 117: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
118: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
119: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
120: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 121: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
122: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 123: <p>
124:
1.559 jason 125: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
126: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
127: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
128: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
129: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 130: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 131: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 132: <ul>
133: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 134: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
135: <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>]
136: <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>]
137: <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 138: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
139: </ul>
140: <p>
141:
1.556 fgsch 142: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
143: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
144: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 145: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
146: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 147: <p>
148:
1.553 grunk 149: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
150: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
151: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
152: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
153: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
154: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
155: and some other volunteers.
156: <p>
157:
1.551 deraadt 158: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
159: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
160: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
161: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
162: vendors to open up their documentation.
163: <p>
164:
1.550 henning 165: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
166: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
167: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
168: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
169: <p>
170:
1.547 aanriot 171: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
172: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
173: 2006</a></strong>,
174: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
175: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
176: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
177: <p>
178:
1.546 mcbride 179: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
180: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
181: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
182: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
183: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
184: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
185: and
186: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
187: <p>
188:
1.532 wvdputte 189: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
190: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
191: </a></strong>,
192: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
193: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
194: <p>
195:
1.528 wvdputte 196: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
197: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
198: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
199: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
200: <p>
201:
1.525 wvdputte 202: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
203: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
204: </strong>,
205: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
206: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
207: <p>
208:
1.521 fkr 209: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
210: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
211: </strong>,
212: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
213: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
214: <p>
215:
1.518 tedu 216: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
217: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
218: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
219: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
220: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
221: <p>
222:
223: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
224: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
225: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
226: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
227: <p>
1.475 deraadt 228:
1.510 wvdputte 229: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
230: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
231: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
232: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
233: Serge Basterot.
234: <p>
235:
1.508 wvdputte 236: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
237: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
238: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
239: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 240: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 241: Tim Kornau.
242: <p>
243:
1.507 mbalmer 244: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
245: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
246: </strong>,
247: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
248: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
249: <p>
250:
1.506 deraadt 251: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 252: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 253: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
254: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
255: gave a talk
256: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
257: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
258: and live demonstration on redundant failover
259: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
260: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
261: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
262: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
263: <p>
264:
1.502 mbalmer 265: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
266: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
267: </strong>
268: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
269: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 270: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 271: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
272: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
273: <p>
274:
275: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
276: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
277: </strong>,
278: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
279: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
280: <p>
281:
1.500 deraadt 282: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
283: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
284: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 285: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
286: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 287: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
288: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
289: <p>
290:
1.491 bernd 291: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
292: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
293: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
294: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
295: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
296: PF tutorial</a>.
297: <p>
298:
1.490 reyk 299: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
300: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
301: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
302: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
303: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
304: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
305: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
306: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
307: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
308: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
309: <p>
310:
1.489 bernd 311: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
312: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
313: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
314: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
315: the overall system and its great features.
316: <p>
317:
1.484 mbalmer 318: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
319: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
320: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
321: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
322: <ul>
323: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
324: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 325: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 326: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
327: distributions...
328: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
329: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 330: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 331: infrastructure.
332: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
333: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
334: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
335: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
336: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
337: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
338: </ul>
339: <br>
340: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 341: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 342: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
343: <br>
344: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
345: usual suspects.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
349: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
350: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
351: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
352: <p>
353:
1.486 mickey 354: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
355: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
356: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
357: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 358: (<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 359: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
360: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
361: <p>
362:
1.484 mbalmer 363: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
364: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
365: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
366: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
367: talk. There is a
368: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
369: <p>
370:
1.478 mbalmer 371: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
372: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
373: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
374: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
375: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
376: well received.
377: <br>
378: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
379: and we could draw a lot of attention.
380: <p>
381:
1.479 deraadt 382: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
384: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
385: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 386: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
387: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
388: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 389: only).
390: <p>
391:
1.475 deraadt 392: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
393: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
394: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
395: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
396: Jason Dixon presented
397: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
398: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
399: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
400: <br>
401: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
402: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
403: <p>
404:
405: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
406: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
407: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
408: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
409: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
410: <br>
411: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
412: on sale.
413: <p>
414:
1.469 tom 415: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
416: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
417: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
418: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
419: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
420: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
421: Peter N. M. Hansteen
422: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
423: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
424: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
425: drivers for OpenBSD".
426: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
427: <p>
428:
1.459 henning 429: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
430: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
431: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
432: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
433: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
434: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
435: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
436: <p>
437:
1.457 wvdputte 438: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
439: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
440: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
441: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 442: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 443: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
444: BSD dinner. More details and
445: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 446: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 447: <p>
448:
449: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
450: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
451: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
452: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
453: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
454: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
455: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
456: <p>
1.455 grunk 457:
1.456 henning 458: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
459: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
460: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
461: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
462: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
463: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
464: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
465: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
466: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
467: <p>
468:
1.455 grunk 469: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
470: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
471: </strong>,
472: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
473: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
474: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
475: <p>
476: </ul>
477:
1.296 mcbride 478: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 479:
480: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 481:
1.445 martin 482: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
483: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
484: Berlin</a></strong>,
485: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
486: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
487: <p>
488:
1.435 matthieu 489: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
490: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
491: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
492: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
493: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 494: event.
1.444 grunk 495: The program included a
496: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 497: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
498: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 499: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
500: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 501: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 502: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 503: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 504: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 505: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 506: <p>
1.435 matthieu 507: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
508: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
509: <p>
510:
1.434 bernd 511: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
512: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
513: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
514: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
515: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
516: <p>
517:
1.441 niallo 518: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
519: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
520: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
521: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
522: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
523: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
524: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
525: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
526: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
527: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
528: scripts.
529: <p>
530:
1.424 mbalmer 531: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
532: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
533: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 534: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
535: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
536: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 537: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 538: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 539: talks, including
540: <ul>
541: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
542: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
543: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
544: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
545: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
546: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 547: <p>
548:
549: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
550: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
551: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 552: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 553: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
554: <p>
555:
1.418 djm 556: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
557: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
558: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
559: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
560: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
561: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
562: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 563: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
564: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
565: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 566: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
567: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
568: <p>
569:
1.415 aanriot 570: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
571: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
572: 2005</a></strong>,
573: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
574: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
575: help of Thierry Thomas.
576: <p>
577:
1.420 deraadt 578: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
579: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
580: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
581: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
582: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
583: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
584: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
585: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
586: registration was mandatory.<br>
587: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 588: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 589: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
590: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
591: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 592: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 593: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
594: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
595: mechanism.
596: <p>
597:
1.414 bernd 598: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
599: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
600: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
601: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
602: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
603: <p>
604:
605: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
606: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
607: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
608: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
609: <p>
610:
1.410 wvdputte 611: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 612: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 613: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 614: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 615: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
619: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
620: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
621: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 622: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 623: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
624: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
625: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
626: installed on your computer.
627: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 628: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 629: <p>
630:
1.404 wvdputte 631: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
632: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 633: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 634: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
635: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 636: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 637: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
638: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
639: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
640: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
641: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
642: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
643: <p>
644:
645: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
646: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
647: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
648: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
649: <p>
650:
1.403 henning 651: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
652: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 653: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 654: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
655: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
656: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
657: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
658: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
659: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
660: <p>
661:
1.388 tom 662: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
663: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
664: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 665: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 666: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
667: <p>
668:
1.385 mickey 669: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 670: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 671: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 672: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
673: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 674: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
675: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 676: and an excellent
677: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
678: If you want to see what happened previously, check
679: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
680: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
681: <p>
682:
1.382 pedro 683: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 684: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 685: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 686: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 687: <p>
688:
1.378 aanriot 689: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
690: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 691: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 692: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
693: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
694: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
695: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 696: <p>
697:
1.375 grunk 698: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
699: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 700: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 701: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
702: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
703: <p>
704:
1.374 grunk 705: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
706: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 707: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 708: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
709: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
710: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
711: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
712: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
713: <p>
714:
1.371 deraadt 715: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
716: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 717: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 718: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
719: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
720: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
721: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
722: He demonstrated how companies can easily
723: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
724: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
725: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
726: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
727: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
728: <p>
729:
1.366 martin 730: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
731: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
732: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
733: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
734: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
735: CDs and shirts.
736: <p>
737:
1.365 mcbride 738: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
739: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
740: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
741: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
742: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
743: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
744: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
745: <br>
746: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
747: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
748: <p>
749:
1.362 reyk 750: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
751: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
752: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
753: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
754: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
755: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
756: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
757: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
758: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
759: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
760: <p>
761:
1.358 mcbride 762: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
763: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
764: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
765: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
766: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
767: <p>
768:
1.357 henning 769: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
770: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
771: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
772: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
773: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
774: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
775: <p>
776:
1.384 tom 777: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 778: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 779: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 780: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
781: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
782: packages work in front of about 30 people.
783: <p>
784:
1.353 henning 785: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
786: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 787: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 788: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
789: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
790: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
791: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 792: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 793: <p>
794:
1.352 henning 795: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
796: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 797: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 798: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
799: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
800: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
801: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
802: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
803: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
804: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
805: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
806: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
807: available if you couldn't make it there.
808: <p>
809:
1.350 marius 810: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
811:
812: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 813: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 814: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
815: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
816: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
817: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
818: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 819: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 820: <p>
821:
1.345 henning 822: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
823: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 824: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 825: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
826: <p>
827:
1.344 martin 828: <li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
829: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 830: Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
1.344 martin 831: 13004, Marseille, France.<br>
832: Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
833: about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
834: *BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
835: (in French) are available.
836: <p>
837:
1.337 deraadt 838: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
839: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 840: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 841: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
842: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 843: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 844: source firewalls.
845: <p>
846:
1.317 henning 847: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
848: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
849: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 850: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 851: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 852: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 853: <p>
854:
1.312 deraadt 855: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
856: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
857: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 858: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
859: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 860: <p>
861:
1.319 saad 862: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
863: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
864: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
865: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
866: <p>
867:
1.310 mickey 868: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 869: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 870: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 871: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 872: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 873: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 874: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 875: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 876: <p>
1.312 deraadt 877:
1.308 deraadt 878: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
879: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
880: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
881: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 882: talks. Topics included
883: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 884: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
885: OpenBGPD, and pf.
886: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 887: <p>
888:
1.304 saad 889: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
890: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
891: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
892: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
893: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 894: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 895: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 896: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
897: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 898: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 899: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
900: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
901: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 902: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 903: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
904: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
905: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
906: <p>
1.301 saad 907: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
908: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
909: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
910: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
911: <p>
912: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
913: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
914: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
915: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
916: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
917: <p>
1.293 saad 918: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
919: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
920: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
921: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
922: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
923: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 924: french translation team.<br>
925: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
926: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
927: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
928: available.<br>
929: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 930: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
931: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
932: <p>
1.296 mcbride 933: </ul>
1.293 saad 934:
1.296 mcbride 935: <h3>2004</h3>
936:
937: <ul>
1.287 henning 938: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
939: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 940: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 941: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
942: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
943: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 944: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 945: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
946: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
947: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
948: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
949: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
950: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 951: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 952: driver.
953: <p>
1.248 deraadt 954:
1.286 kevlo 955: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 956: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 957: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
958: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
959: <p>
960:
1.285 deraadt 961: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
962: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
963: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
964: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
965: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
966: <p>
967:
1.283 saad 968: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
969: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
970: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
971: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
972: meeting of the
973: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
974: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 975: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 976: <p>
977:
1.282 henning 978: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
979: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
980: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
981: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
982: two days, on bgpd
983: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
984: ntpd
985: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
986: and signal handlers
987: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
988: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
989: <p>
990:
1.275 deraadt 991: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
992: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
993: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
994: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
995: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
996: Room B-02 of the
997: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
998: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
999: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1000: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1001: The talk was also given the following day at the
1002: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1003: <p>
1004:
1.271 henning 1005: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1006: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1007: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1008: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1009: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1010: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1011: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1012: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1013: <p>
1014:
1015: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1016: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1017: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1018: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1019: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1020: <p>
1021:
1.276 deraadt 1022: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1023: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1024: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1025: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1026: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1027: <p>
1028:
1029: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1030: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1031: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1032: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1033: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1034: <p>
1035:
1036: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1037: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1038: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1039: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1040: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1041: <p>
1042:
1.268 krw 1043: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1044: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1045: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1046: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1047: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1048: <p>
1049:
1.375 grunk 1050: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1051: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1052: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1053: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1054: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1058: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1059: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1060: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1061: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1062: <p>
1063:
1.265 wvdputte 1064: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1065: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1066: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1067: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1068: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1069: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1070: event."
1071: <br>
1072: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1073: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1074: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1075: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1076: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1077: <br>
1078: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.262 henning 1081: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1082: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1083: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1084: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1085: Henning's slides from his talks about
1086: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1087: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1088: are available.
1089: <p>
1090:
1.261 deraadt 1091: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1092: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1093: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1094: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1095: newly extended version of the
1096: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1097: For more information, see this
1098: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1099: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1100: <p>
1101:
1102:
1.257 saad 1103: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1104: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1105: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1106: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1107: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1108: <p>
1109:
1110: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1111: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1112: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1113: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1114: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.256 mickey 1117: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1118: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1119: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1120: session.
1121: <p>
1122:
1.254 xsa 1123: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1124: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1125: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1126: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1127: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1128: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1129: a basic talk about pf.
1130: <p>
1131:
1.248 deraadt 1132: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1133: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1134: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1135: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1136: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1137: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1138: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1139: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.247 canacar 1142: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1143: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1144: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1145: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1146: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1147: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1148: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1149: projects were discussed.<br>
1150: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1151: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1152: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1153: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1154: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1155: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1156: <p>
1157:
1.242 henning 1158: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1159: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1160: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1161: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1162: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1163: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1164: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1165: and systrace
1.263 saad 1166: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1167: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1168: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1169: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1170: <p>
1171:
1.240 espie 1172: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1173: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1174: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1175: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1176: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1177: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1181: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1182: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1183: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1184: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1185: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1186: <p>
1187: </ul>
1188:
1.188 henning 1189: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1190:
1191: <ul>
1.232 jose 1192: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1194: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1195: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1196: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1197: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1198: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1199: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1200: <p>
1.232 jose 1201:
1.228 jose 1202: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1203: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1204: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1205: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1206: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1207: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1208: with OpenBSD PF.
1209: <p>
1210:
1211: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1212: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1213: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1214: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1215: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1216: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1217: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1218: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1219: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1220: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1221: slides in PDF format </a>
1222: (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 1223: <p>
1224:
1.227 jose 1225: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1226: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1227: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1228: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1232: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1233: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1234: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1235: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1236: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1237: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1238: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1239: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1240: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1241: in Internet worm defenses.
1242: <p>
1243:
1.224 miod 1244: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1245: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1246: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1247: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1248: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1249: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1250: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1251: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1252: OpenBSD.
1253: <p>
1254:
1255: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1256: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1257: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1258: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1259: <p>
1260:
1261: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1262: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1263: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1264: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1265: <p>
1266:
1.219 jose 1267: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1269: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1270: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1271: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1272: <p>
1273:
1.218 jose 1274: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1275: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1276: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1277: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1278: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1279: <p>
1280:
1.214 henning 1281: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1282: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1283: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1284: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1285: <p>
1286:
1.213 jose 1287: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1289: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1290: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1291: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1292: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1293: <p>
1294:
1.211 jose 1295: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1296: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1297: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1298: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1299: <p>
1300:
1301: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1302: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1303: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1304: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1305: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1306: <p>
1307:
1.209 wvdputte 1308: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1309: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1310: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1311: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1312: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1313:
1.202 jason 1314: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1315: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1316: Conference</a></strong>,
1317: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1318: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1319: <ul>
1.216 jose 1320: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1321: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1322: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1323: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1324: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1325: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1326: </ul>
1327: <p>
1328:
1.201 deraadt 1329: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1330: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1331: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1332: session.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.216 jose 1335: <li><strong>
1336: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1337: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1338: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1339: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1340: <p>
1341:
1.216 jose 1342: <li><strong>
1343: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1344: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1345: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1346: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1347: <p>
1348:
1.216 jose 1349: <li><strong>
1350: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1351: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1352: 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 1353: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1354: <p>
1355:
1.216 jose 1356: <li><strong>
1357: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1358: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1359: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1360: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1361: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1362: user groups.
1363: <p>
1364:
1.236 jose 1365: <li><strong>
1366: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1367: Group</a></strong>,
1368: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1369: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1370: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1371: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1372: <p>
1373:
1.216 jose 1374: <li><strong>
1375: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1376: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1377: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1378: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1379: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1380: <p>
1381:
1.216 jose 1382: <li><strong>
1383: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1384: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1385: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1386: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1387: <p>
1.236 jose 1388: </ul>
1.185 miod 1389:
1.161 millert 1390: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1391:
1392: <ul>
1393: <li><strong>
1394: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1395: Congress</a></strong>,
1396: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1397: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1398: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1399: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1400: <p>
1.177 jason 1401:
1.216 jose 1402: <li><strong>
1403: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1404: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1405: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1406: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1407: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1408: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1409: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1410: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1411: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1412: <p>
1.178 pb 1413:
1.216 jose 1414: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1415: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1416: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1417: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1418: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1419: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1420: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1421: <p>
1422:
1.216 jose 1423: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1424: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1425: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1426: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1427: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1428: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1429: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1430: <p>
1431:
1432: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1433: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1434: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1435: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1436: Niels Provos presented his
1437: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1438: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1439: <p>
1.172 miod 1440:
1.216 jose 1441: <li><strong>
1442: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1443: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1444: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1445: <p>
1446:
1.216 jose 1447: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1448: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1449: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1450: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1451: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1452: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1453: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1454: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1455: <p>
1.168 miod 1456:
1.216 jose 1457: <li><strong>
1458: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1459: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1460: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1461: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1462: are available.
1.161 millert 1463: <p>
1464:
1.216 jose 1465: <li><strong>
1466: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1467: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1468: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1469: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1470: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1471: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1472: <p>
1473:
1.216 jose 1474: <li><strong>
1475: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1476: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1477: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1478: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1479: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1480: <p>
1.236 jose 1481: </ul>
1.164 millert 1482:
1.152 jakob 1483: <h3>2001</h3>
1484:
1.236 jose 1485: <ul>
1.216 jose 1486: <li><strong>
1487: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1488: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1489: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1490: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1491: <p>
1492:
1.216 jose 1493: <li><strong>
1494: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1495: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1496: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1497: <p>
1498:
1.158 deraadt 1499: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1500: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1501: 2001</a></strong>,
1502: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1503: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1504: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1505: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1506: <p>
1507:
1.216 jose 1508: <li><strong>
1509: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1510: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1511: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1512: <p>
1513:
1.201 deraadt 1514: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1515: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1516: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1517: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1518:
1.150 wvdputte 1519: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1520: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1521: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1522: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1523: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1524: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1525: <p>
1.137 aaron 1526:
1527: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1528: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1529: Conference</a></strong>,
1530: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1531: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1532: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1533: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1534: <p>
1535:
1536: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1537: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1538: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1539: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1540: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1541: <p>
1542:
1543: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1544: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1545: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1546: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1547: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1548: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1549: <p>
1550:
1551: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1552: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1553: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1554: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1555: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1556: <p>
1557:
1558: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1559: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1560: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1561: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1562: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1563: security community.
1564: <p>
1565:
1566: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1567: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1568: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1569: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1570: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1571: <p>
1572:
1573: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1574: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1575: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1576: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1577: <p>
1.236 jose 1578: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1579:
1.132 louis 1580: <h3>2000</h3>
1581:
1.236 jose 1582: <ul>
1.132 louis 1583: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1584: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1585: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1586: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1587: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1588: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1589: <p>
1590:
1591: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1592: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1593: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1594: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1595: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1596: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1597: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1598: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1599: <p>
1600:
1601: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1602: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1603: 2000</a></strong>,
1604: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1605: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1606: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1607: <p>
1.4 millert 1608:
1.132 louis 1609: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1610: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1611: Summit</a></strong>,
1612: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1613: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1614: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1615: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1616:
1617: <ul>
1.236 jose 1618: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1619: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1620: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1621: </ul>
1.4 millert 1622: <p>
1.132 louis 1623:
1.7 deraadt 1624: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1625: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1626: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1627: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1628: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1629: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1630: mind (drinks afterwards).
1631: <p>
1632:
1.216 jose 1633: <li><strong>
1634: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1635: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1636: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1637: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1638: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1639:
1.132 louis 1640: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1641: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1642: Revolution</a></strong>,
1643: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1644: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1645: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1646: <p>
1647:
1.132 louis 1648: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1649: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1650: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1651: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1652: <ul>
1.236 jose 1653: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1654: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1655: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1656: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1657: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1658: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1659: <p>
1.132 louis 1660:
1.10 provos 1661: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1662: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1663: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1664: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1665: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1666: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1667: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1668: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1669: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1670: <br>
1671: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1672: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1673: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1674:
1.132 louis 1675: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1676: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1677: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1678: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1679: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1680: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1681: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1682: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1683: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1684: and spoke about
1685: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1686: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1687: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1688: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1689: <p>
1.132 louis 1690:
1.6 deraadt 1691: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1692: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1693: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1694: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1695: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1696: <br>
1697: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1698: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1699: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1700: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1701:
1.216 jose 1702: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1703: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1704: Conference.</a></strong>,
1705: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1706: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1707: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1708: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1709: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1710: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1711: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1712: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1713: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1714: <ul>
1715:
1716: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1717: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1718: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1719: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1720: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1721:
1722: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1723: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1724: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1725: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1726: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1727:
1.132 louis 1728: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1729: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1730: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1731: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1732: <p>
1733:
1.132 louis 1734: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1735: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1736: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1737: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1738: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1739: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1740: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1741: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1742:
1.132 louis 1743: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1744: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1745: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1746: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1747: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1748: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1749: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1750: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1751: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1752:
1.17 deraadt 1753: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1754: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1755: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1756: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1757: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1758: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1759: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1760: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1761: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1762:
1.23 niklas 1763: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1764: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1765: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1766: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1767: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1768: efforts.
1769: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1770: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1771: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1772: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1773: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1774: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1775:
1.132 louis 1776: <li><strong>
1777: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1778: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1779: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1780: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1781: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1782: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1783: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1784: <p>
1.23 niklas 1785:
1.31 deraadt 1786: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1787: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1788: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1789: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1790: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1791: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1792: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1793: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1794: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1795: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1796:
1.201 deraadt 1797: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1798: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1799: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1800: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1801: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1802: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1803: <p>
1.236 jose 1804: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1805:
1.132 louis 1806: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1807:
1.236 jose 1808: <ul>
1.216 jose 1809: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1810: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1811: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1812: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1813: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1814: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1815: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1816: <p>
1817:
1.216 jose 1818: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1819: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1820: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1821: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1822: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1823: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1824: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1825: There were many other OpenBSD
1826: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1827: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1828:
1829: <ul>
1830: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1831: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1832: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1833: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1834: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1835: </ul>
1836: <p>
1837:
1838: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1839: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1840: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1841: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1842: <p>
1843:
1844: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1845: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1846: Software '99</a></strong>,
1847: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1848: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1849: <a
1.375 grunk 1850: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1851: <p>
1852:
1853: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1854: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1855: 1999</a></strong>,
1856: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1857: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1858: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1859: <p>
1860:
1.236 jose 1861: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1862: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1863: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1864: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1865: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1866: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1867: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1868: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1869: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1870: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1871: conference in Stockholm.
1872: <p>
1873:
1874: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1875: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1876: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1877: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1878: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1879: coordinated.
1880: <p>
1881:
1882: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1883: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1884: Security</a></strong>,
1885: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1886: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1887: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1888: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1889: significant security roles.
1890: <p>
1891:
1892: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1893: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1894: meeting</a></strong>,
1895: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1896: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1897: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1898: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1899: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1900: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1901: <p>
1.45 jason 1902:
1.132 louis 1903: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1904: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1905: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1906: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1907: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1908: <p>
1.132 louis 1909:
1.236 jose 1910: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1911: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1912: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1913: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1914: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1915: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1916: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1917: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1918: June.)
1.132 louis 1919: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1920: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1921: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1922:
1.375 grunk 1923: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1924: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1925: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1926: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1927: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1928: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1929: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1930: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1931: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1932: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1933: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1934: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1935: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1936: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1937: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1938: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1939: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1940: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1941: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1942: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1943: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1944: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1946: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1947: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1948: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1949: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1950: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1951:
1.51 deraadt 1952: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1953: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1954: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1955: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1956: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1957: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1958: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1959: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1960: <p>
1961:
1.53 jakob 1962: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1963: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1964: meeting</a></strong>,
1965: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1966: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1967: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1968: <p>
1969:
1.132 louis 1970: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1971: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1972: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1973: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1974: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1975: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1976: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1977: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1978: <p>
1.236 jose 1979: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1980:
1.132 louis 1981: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1982:
1.236 jose 1983: <ul>
1.132 louis 1984: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1986: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1987: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1988: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 1989: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1990: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
1991: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
1992: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
1993: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 1994: <p>
1995:
1.236 jose 1996: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1997: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1998: Conference</a></strong>,
1999: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2000: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2001: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2002: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2003: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2004: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2005: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2006: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2007: <br>
2008: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2009: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2010: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2011: <p>
2012:
1.73 deraadt 2013: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2014: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2015: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2016: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2017: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2018: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2019: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2020: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2021: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2022:
1.236 jose 2023: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2024: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2025: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2026: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2027: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2028: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2029: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2030: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2031:
1.80 deraadt 2032: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2033: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2034: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2035: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2036: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2037: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2038: <p>
2039:
1.93 louis 2040: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2041: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2042: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2043: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2044: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2045: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2046: <p>
2047:
1.216 jose 2048: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2049: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2050: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2051: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2052: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2053: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2054: <p>
2055:
1.236 jose 2056: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2057: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2058: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2059: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2060: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2061: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2062: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2063: <br>
2064: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2065: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2066: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2067: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2068: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2069:
1.236 jose 2070: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2071: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2072: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2073: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2074: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2075: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2076: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2077: <p>
2078:
1.236 jose 2079: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2080: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2081: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2082: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2083: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2084: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2085: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2086: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2087: <br>
2088: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2089: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2090: <p>
2091:
1.105 wvdputte 2092: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2093: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2094: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2095: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2096: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2097: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2098: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2099: <br>
1.132 louis 2100: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2101: <p>
1.236 jose 2102: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2103:
1.132 louis 2104: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2105:
1.236 jose 2106: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2107: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2108: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2109: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2110: Niels held a
2111: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2112: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2113: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2114: <p>
1.132 louis 2115:
1.236 jose 2116: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2117: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2118: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2119: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2120: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2121: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2122:
1.236 jose 2123: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2124: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2125: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2126: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2127: <br>
2128: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2129: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2130: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2131: <p>
2132:
1.125 deraadt 2133: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2134: <a
2135: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2136: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2137: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2138: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2139: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2140:
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