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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:
1.585 aanriot 291: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 ! aanriot 292: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
! 293: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 294: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 ! aanriot 295: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 296: <p>
297:
1.491 bernd 298: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
299: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
300: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
301: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
302: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
303: PF tutorial</a>.
304: <p>
305:
1.490 reyk 306: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
307: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
308: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
309: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
310: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
311: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
312: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
313: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
314: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
315: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
316: <p>
317:
1.489 bernd 318: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
319: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
320: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
321: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
322: the overall system and its great features.
323: <p>
324:
1.484 mbalmer 325: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
326: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
327: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
328: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
329: <ul>
330: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
331: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 332: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 333: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
334: distributions...
335: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
336: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 337: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 338: infrastructure.
339: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
340: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
341: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
342: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
343: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
344: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
345: </ul>
346: <br>
347: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 348: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 349: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
350: <br>
351: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
352: usual suspects.
353: <p>
354:
355: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
356: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
357: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
358: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
359: <p>
360:
1.486 mickey 361: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
362: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
363: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
364: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 365: (<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 366: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
367: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
368: <p>
369:
1.484 mbalmer 370: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
371: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
372: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
373: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
374: talk. There is a
375: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
376: <p>
377:
1.478 mbalmer 378: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
379: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
380: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
381: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
382: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
383: well received.
384: <br>
385: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
386: and we could draw a lot of attention.
387: <p>
388:
1.479 deraadt 389: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
390: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
391: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
392: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 393: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
394: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
395: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 396: only).
397: <p>
398:
1.475 deraadt 399: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
400: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
401: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
402: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
403: Jason Dixon presented
404: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
405: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
406: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
407: <br>
408: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
409: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
410: <p>
411:
412: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
413: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
414: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
415: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
416: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
417: <br>
418: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
419: on sale.
420: <p>
421:
1.469 tom 422: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
423: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
424: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
425: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
426: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
427: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
428: Peter N. M. Hansteen
429: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
430: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
431: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
432: drivers for OpenBSD".
433: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
434: <p>
435:
1.459 henning 436: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
437: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
438: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
439: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
440: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
441: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
442: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
443: <p>
444:
1.457 wvdputte 445: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
446: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
447: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
448: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 449: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 450: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
451: BSD dinner. More details and
452: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 453: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 454: <p>
455:
456: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
457: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
458: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
459: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
460: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
461: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
462: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
463: <p>
1.455 grunk 464:
1.456 henning 465: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
466: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
467: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
468: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
469: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
470: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
471: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
472: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
473: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
474: <p>
475:
1.455 grunk 476: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
477: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
478: </strong>,
479: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
480: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
481: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
482: <p>
483: </ul>
484:
1.296 mcbride 485: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 486:
487: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 488:
1.445 martin 489: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
490: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
491: Berlin</a></strong>,
492: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
493: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
494: <p>
495:
1.585 aanriot 496: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 ! aanriot 497: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
! 498: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
! 499: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 500: <p>
501:
1.435 matthieu 502: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
503: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
504: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
505: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
506: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 507: event.
1.444 grunk 508: The program included a
509: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 510: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
511: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 512: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
513: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 514: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 515: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 516: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 517: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 518: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 519: <p>
1.435 matthieu 520: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
521: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
522: <p>
523:
1.434 bernd 524: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
525: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
526: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
527: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
528: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
529: <p>
530:
1.441 niallo 531: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
532: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
533: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
534: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
535: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
536: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
537: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
538: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
539: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
540: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
541: scripts.
542: <p>
543:
1.424 mbalmer 544: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
545: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
546: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 547: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
548: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
549: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 550: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 551: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 552: talks, including
553: <ul>
554: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
555: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
556: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
557: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
558: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
559: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 560: <p>
561:
562: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
563: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
564: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 565: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 566: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
567: <p>
568:
1.418 djm 569: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
570: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
571: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
572: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
573: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
574: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
575: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 576: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
577: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
578: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 579: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
580: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
581: <p>
582:
1.415 aanriot 583: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
584: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
585: 2005</a></strong>,
586: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
587: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
588: help of Thierry Thomas.
589: <p>
590:
1.420 deraadt 591: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
592: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
593: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
594: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
595: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
596: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
597: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
598: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
599: registration was mandatory.<br>
600: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 601: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 602: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
603: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
604: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 605: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 606: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
607: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
608: mechanism.
609: <p>
610:
1.414 bernd 611: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
612: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
613: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
614: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
615: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
619: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
620: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
621: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
622: <p>
623:
1.410 wvdputte 624: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 625: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 626: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 627: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 628: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 629: <p>
630:
631: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
632: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
633: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
634: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 635: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 636: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
637: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
638: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
639: installed on your computer.
640: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 641: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 642: <p>
643:
1.404 wvdputte 644: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
645: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 646: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 647: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
648: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 649: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 650: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
651: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
652: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
653: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
654: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
655: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
659: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
660: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
661: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
662: <p>
663:
1.403 henning 664: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
665: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 666: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 667: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
668: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
669: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
670: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
671: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
672: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
673: <p>
674:
1.388 tom 675: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
676: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
677: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 678: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 679: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
680: <p>
681:
1.385 mickey 682: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 683: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 684: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 685: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
686: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 687: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
688: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 689: and an excellent
690: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
691: If you want to see what happened previously, check
692: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
693: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
694: <p>
695:
1.382 pedro 696: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 697: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 698: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 699: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 700: <p>
701:
1.378 aanriot 702: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
703: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 704: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 705: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
706: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
707: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
708: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 709: <p>
710:
1.375 grunk 711: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
712: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 713: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 714: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
715: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
716: <p>
717:
1.374 grunk 718: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
719: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 720: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 721: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
722: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
723: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
724: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
725: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
726: <p>
727:
1.371 deraadt 728: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
729: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 730: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 731: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
732: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
733: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
734: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
735: He demonstrated how companies can easily
736: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
737: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
738: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
739: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
740: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
741: <p>
742:
1.366 martin 743: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
744: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
745: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
746: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
747: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
748: CDs and shirts.
749: <p>
750:
1.365 mcbride 751: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
752: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
753: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
754: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
755: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
756: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
757: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
758: <br>
759: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
760: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
761: <p>
762:
1.362 reyk 763: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
764: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
765: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
766: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
767: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
768: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
769: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
770: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
771: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
772: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
773: <p>
774:
1.358 mcbride 775: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
776: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
777: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
778: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
779: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
780: <p>
781:
1.357 henning 782: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
783: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
784: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
785: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
786: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
787: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
788: <p>
789:
1.384 tom 790: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 791: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 792: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 793: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
794: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
795: packages work in front of about 30 people.
796: <p>
797:
1.353 henning 798: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
799: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 800: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 801: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
802: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
803: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
804: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 805: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 806: <p>
807:
1.352 henning 808: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
809: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 810: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 811: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
812: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
813: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
814: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
815: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
816: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
817: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
818: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
819: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
820: available if you couldn't make it there.
821: <p>
822:
1.350 marius 823: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
824:
825: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 826: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 827: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
828: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
829: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
830: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
831: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 832: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 833: <p>
834:
1.345 henning 835: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
836: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 837: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 838: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
839: <p>
840:
1.585 aanriot 841: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 ! aanriot 842: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
! 843: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 844: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 ! aanriot 845: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 846: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 847: <p>
848:
1.337 deraadt 849: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
850: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 851: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 852: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
853: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 854: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 855: source firewalls.
856: <p>
857:
1.317 henning 858: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
859: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
860: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 861: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 862: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 863: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 864: <p>
865:
1.312 deraadt 866: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
867: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
868: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 869: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
870: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 871: <p>
872:
1.319 saad 873: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
874: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
875: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
876: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
877: <p>
878:
1.310 mickey 879: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 880: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 881: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 882: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 883: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 884: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 885: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 886: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 887: <p>
1.312 deraadt 888:
1.308 deraadt 889: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
890: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
891: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
892: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 893: talks. Topics included
894: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 895: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
896: OpenBGPD, and pf.
897: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 898: <p>
899:
1.304 saad 900: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
901: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
902: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
903: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
904: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 905: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 906: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 907: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
908: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 909: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 910: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
911: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
912: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 913: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 914: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
915: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
916: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
917: <p>
1.301 saad 918: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
919: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
920: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
921: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
922: <p>
923: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
924: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
925: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
926: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
927: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
928: <p>
1.293 saad 929: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
930: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
931: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
932: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
933: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
934: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 935: french translation team.<br>
936: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
937: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
938: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
939: available.<br>
940: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 941: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
942: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
943: <p>
1.296 mcbride 944: </ul>
1.293 saad 945:
1.296 mcbride 946: <h3>2004</h3>
947:
948: <ul>
1.287 henning 949: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
950: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 951: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 952: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
953: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
954: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 955: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 956: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
957: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
958: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
959: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
960: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
961: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 962: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 963: driver.
964: <p>
1.248 deraadt 965:
1.286 kevlo 966: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 967: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 968: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
969: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
970: <p>
971:
1.285 deraadt 972: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
973: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
974: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
975: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
976: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
977: <p>
978:
1.283 saad 979: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
980: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
981: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
982: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
983: meeting of the
984: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
985: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 986: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 987: <p>
988:
1.282 henning 989: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
990: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
991: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
992: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
993: two days, on bgpd
994: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
995: ntpd
996: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
997: and signal handlers
998: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
999: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1000: <p>
1001:
1.275 deraadt 1002: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1003: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1004: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1005: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1006: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1007: Room B-02 of the
1008: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1009: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1010: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1011: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1012: The talk was also given the following day at the
1013: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1014: <p>
1015:
1.271 henning 1016: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1017: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1018: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1019: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1020: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1021: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1022: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1023: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1024: <p>
1025:
1026: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1027: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1028: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1029: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1030: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1031: <p>
1032:
1.276 deraadt 1033: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1034: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1035: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1036: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1037: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1041: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1042: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1043: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1044: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1048: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1049: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1050: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1051: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1052: <p>
1053:
1.268 krw 1054: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1055: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1056: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1057: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1058: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1059: <p>
1060:
1.375 grunk 1061: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1062: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1063: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1064: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1065: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1066: <p>
1067:
1068: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1069: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1070: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1071: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1072: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.265 wvdputte 1075: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1076: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1077: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1078: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1079: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1080: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1081: event."
1082: <br>
1083: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1084: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1085: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1086: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1087: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1088: <br>
1089: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.262 henning 1092: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1093: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1094: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1095: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1096: Henning's slides from his talks about
1097: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1098: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1099: are available.
1100: <p>
1101:
1.261 deraadt 1102: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1103: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1104: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1105: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1106: newly extended version of the
1107: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1108: For more information, see this
1109: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1110: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1111: <p>
1112:
1113:
1.257 saad 1114: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1115: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1116: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1117: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1118: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1119: <p>
1120:
1121: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1122: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1123: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1124: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1125: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1126: <p>
1127:
1.256 mickey 1128: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1129: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1130: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1131: session.
1132: <p>
1133:
1.254 xsa 1134: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1135: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1136: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1137: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1138: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1139: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1140: a basic talk about pf.
1141: <p>
1142:
1.248 deraadt 1143: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1144: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1145: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1146: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1148: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1149: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1150: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1151: <p>
1152:
1.247 canacar 1153: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1154: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1155: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1156: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1157: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1158: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1159: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1160: projects were discussed.<br>
1161: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1162: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1163: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1164: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1165: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1166: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1167: <p>
1168:
1.242 henning 1169: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1170: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1171: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1172: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1173: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1174: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1175: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1176: and systrace
1.263 saad 1177: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1178: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1179: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1180: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1181: <p>
1182:
1.240 espie 1183: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1184: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1185: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1186: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1187: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1188: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1189: <p>
1190:
1191: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1192: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1193: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1194: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1195: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1196: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1197: <p>
1198: </ul>
1199:
1.188 henning 1200: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1201:
1202: <ul>
1.232 jose 1203: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1204: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1205: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1206: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1207: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1208: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1209: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1210: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1211: <p>
1.232 jose 1212:
1.228 jose 1213: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1214: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1215: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1216: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1217: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1218: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1219: with OpenBSD PF.
1220: <p>
1221:
1222: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1223: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1224: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1225: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1226: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1227: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1228: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1229: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1230: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1231: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1232: slides in PDF format </a>
1233: (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 1234: <p>
1235:
1.227 jose 1236: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1237: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1238: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1239: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1240: <p>
1241:
1242: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1243: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1244: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1245: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1246: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1247: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1248: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1249: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1250: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1251: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1252: in Internet worm defenses.
1253: <p>
1254:
1.224 miod 1255: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1256: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1257: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1258: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1259: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1260: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1261: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1262: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1263: OpenBSD.
1264: <p>
1265:
1266: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1267: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1268: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1269: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1270: <p>
1271:
1272: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1273: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1274: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1275: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1276: <p>
1277:
1.219 jose 1278: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1279: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1280: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1281: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1282: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1283: <p>
1284:
1.218 jose 1285: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1286: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1287: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1288: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1289: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1290: <p>
1291:
1.214 henning 1292: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1293: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1294: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1295: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1296: <p>
1297:
1.213 jose 1298: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1299: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1300: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1301: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1302: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1303: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1304: <p>
1305:
1.211 jose 1306: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1307: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1308: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1309: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1310: <p>
1311:
1312: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1313: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1314: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1315: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1316: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1317: <p>
1318:
1.209 wvdputte 1319: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1320: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1321: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1322: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1323: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1324:
1.202 jason 1325: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1326: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1327: Conference</a></strong>,
1328: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1329: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1330: <ul>
1.216 jose 1331: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1332: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1333: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1334: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1335: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1336: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1337: </ul>
1338: <p>
1339:
1.201 deraadt 1340: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1341: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1342: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1343: session.
1344: <p>
1345:
1.216 jose 1346: <li><strong>
1347: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1348: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1349: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1350: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1351: <p>
1352:
1.216 jose 1353: <li><strong>
1354: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1355: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1356: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1357: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1358: <p>
1359:
1.216 jose 1360: <li><strong>
1361: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1362: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1363: 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 1364: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1365: <p>
1366:
1.216 jose 1367: <li><strong>
1368: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1369: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1370: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1371: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1372: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1373: user groups.
1374: <p>
1375:
1.236 jose 1376: <li><strong>
1377: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1378: Group</a></strong>,
1379: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1380: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1381: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1382: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1383: <p>
1384:
1.216 jose 1385: <li><strong>
1386: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1387: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1388: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1389: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1390: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1391: <p>
1392:
1.216 jose 1393: <li><strong>
1394: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1395: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1396: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1397: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1398: <p>
1.236 jose 1399: </ul>
1.185 miod 1400:
1.161 millert 1401: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1402:
1403: <ul>
1404: <li><strong>
1405: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1406: Congress</a></strong>,
1407: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1408: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1409: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1410: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1411: <p>
1.177 jason 1412:
1.216 jose 1413: <li><strong>
1414: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1415: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1416: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1417: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1418: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1419: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1420: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1421: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1422: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1423: <p>
1.178 pb 1424:
1.216 jose 1425: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1426: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1427: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1428: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1429: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1430: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1431: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1432: <p>
1433:
1.216 jose 1434: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1435: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1436: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1437: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1438: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1439: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1440: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1441: <p>
1442:
1443: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1444: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1445: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1446: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1447: Niels Provos presented his
1448: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1449: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1450: <p>
1.172 miod 1451:
1.216 jose 1452: <li><strong>
1453: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1454: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1455: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1456: <p>
1457:
1.216 jose 1458: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1459: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1460: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1461: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1462: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1463: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1464: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1465: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1466: <p>
1.168 miod 1467:
1.216 jose 1468: <li><strong>
1469: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1470: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1471: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1472: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1473: are available.
1.161 millert 1474: <p>
1475:
1.216 jose 1476: <li><strong>
1477: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1478: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1479: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1480: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1481: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1482: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1483: <p>
1484:
1.216 jose 1485: <li><strong>
1486: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1487: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1488: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1489: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1490: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1491: <p>
1.236 jose 1492: </ul>
1.164 millert 1493:
1.152 jakob 1494: <h3>2001</h3>
1495:
1.236 jose 1496: <ul>
1.216 jose 1497: <li><strong>
1498: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1499: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1500: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1501: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1502: <p>
1503:
1.216 jose 1504: <li><strong>
1505: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1506: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1507: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1508: <p>
1509:
1.158 deraadt 1510: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1511: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1512: 2001</a></strong>,
1513: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1514: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1515: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1516: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1517: <p>
1518:
1.216 jose 1519: <li><strong>
1520: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1521: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1522: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1523: <p>
1524:
1.201 deraadt 1525: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1526: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1527: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1528: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1529:
1.150 wvdputte 1530: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1531: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1532: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1533: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1534: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1535: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1536: <p>
1.137 aaron 1537:
1538: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1539: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1540: Conference</a></strong>,
1541: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1542: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1543: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1544: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1545: <p>
1546:
1547: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1548: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1549: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1550: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1551: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1552: <p>
1553:
1554: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1555: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1556: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1557: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1558: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1559: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1560: <p>
1561:
1562: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1563: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1564: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1565: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1566: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1567: <p>
1568:
1569: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1570: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1571: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1572: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1573: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1574: security community.
1575: <p>
1576:
1577: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1578: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1579: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1580: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1581: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1582: <p>
1583:
1584: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1585: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1586: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1587: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1588: <p>
1.236 jose 1589: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1590:
1.132 louis 1591: <h3>2000</h3>
1592:
1.236 jose 1593: <ul>
1.132 louis 1594: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1595: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1596: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1597: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1598: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1599: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1600: <p>
1601:
1602: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1603: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1604: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1605: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1606: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1607: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1608: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1609: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1610: <p>
1611:
1612: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1613: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1614: 2000</a></strong>,
1615: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1616: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1617: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1618: <p>
1.4 millert 1619:
1.132 louis 1620: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1621: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1622: Summit</a></strong>,
1623: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1624: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1625: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1626: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1627:
1628: <ul>
1.236 jose 1629: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1630: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1631: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1632: </ul>
1.4 millert 1633: <p>
1.132 louis 1634:
1.7 deraadt 1635: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1636: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1637: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1638: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1639: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1640: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1641: mind (drinks afterwards).
1642: <p>
1643:
1.216 jose 1644: <li><strong>
1645: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1646: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1647: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1648: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1649: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1650:
1.132 louis 1651: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1652: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1653: Revolution</a></strong>,
1654: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1655: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1656: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1657: <p>
1658:
1.132 louis 1659: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1660: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1661: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1662: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1663: <ul>
1.236 jose 1664: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1665: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1666: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1667: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1668: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1669: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1670: <p>
1.132 louis 1671:
1.10 provos 1672: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1673: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1674: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1675: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1676: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1677: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1678: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1679: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1680: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1681: <br>
1682: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1683: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1684: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1685:
1.132 louis 1686: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1687: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1688: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1689: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1690: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1691: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1692: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1693: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1694: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1695: and spoke about
1696: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1697: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1698: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1699: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1700: <p>
1.132 louis 1701:
1.6 deraadt 1702: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1703: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1704: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1705: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1706: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1707: <br>
1708: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1709: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1710: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1711: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1712:
1.216 jose 1713: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1714: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1715: Conference.</a></strong>,
1716: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1717: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1718: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1719: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1720: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1721: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1722: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1723: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1724: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1725: <ul>
1726:
1727: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1728: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1729: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1730: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1731: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1732:
1733: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1734: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1735: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1736: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1737: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1738:
1.132 louis 1739: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1740: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1741: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1742: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1743: <p>
1744:
1.132 louis 1745: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1746: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1747: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1748: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1749: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1750: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1751: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1752: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1753:
1.132 louis 1754: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1755: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1756: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1757: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1758: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1759: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1760: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1761: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1762: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1763:
1.17 deraadt 1764: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1765: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1766: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1767: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1768: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1769: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1770: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1771: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1772: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1773:
1.23 niklas 1774: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1775: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1776: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1777: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1778: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1779: efforts.
1780: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1781: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1782: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1783: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1784: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1785: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1786:
1.132 louis 1787: <li><strong>
1788: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1789: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1790: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1791: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1792: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1793: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1794: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1795: <p>
1.23 niklas 1796:
1.31 deraadt 1797: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1798: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1799: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1800: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1801: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1802: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1803: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1804: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1805: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1806: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1807:
1.201 deraadt 1808: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1809: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1810: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1811: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1812: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1813: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1814: <p>
1.236 jose 1815: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1816:
1.132 louis 1817: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1818:
1.236 jose 1819: <ul>
1.216 jose 1820: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1821: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1822: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1823: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1824: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1825: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1826: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1827: <p>
1828:
1.216 jose 1829: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1830: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1831: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1832: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1833: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1834: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1835: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1836: There were many other OpenBSD
1837: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1838: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1839:
1840: <ul>
1841: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1842: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1843: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1844: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1845: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1846: </ul>
1847: <p>
1848:
1849: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1850: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1851: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1852: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1853: <p>
1854:
1855: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1856: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1857: Software '99</a></strong>,
1858: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1859: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1860: <a
1.375 grunk 1861: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1862: <p>
1863:
1864: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1865: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1866: 1999</a></strong>,
1867: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1868: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1869: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1870: <p>
1871:
1.236 jose 1872: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1873: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1874: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1875: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1876: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1877: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1878: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1879: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1880: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1881: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1882: conference in Stockholm.
1883: <p>
1884:
1885: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1886: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1887: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1888: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1889: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1890: coordinated.
1891: <p>
1892:
1893: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1894: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1895: Security</a></strong>,
1896: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1897: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1898: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1899: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1900: significant security roles.
1901: <p>
1902:
1903: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1904: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1905: meeting</a></strong>,
1906: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1907: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1908: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1909: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1910: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1911: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1912: <p>
1.45 jason 1913:
1.132 louis 1914: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1915: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1916: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1917: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1918: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1919: <p>
1.132 louis 1920:
1.236 jose 1921: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1922: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1923: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1924: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1925: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1926: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1927: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1928: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1929: June.)
1.132 louis 1930: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1931: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1932: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1933:
1.375 grunk 1934: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1935: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1936: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1937: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1938: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1939: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1940: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1941: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1942: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1943: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1944: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1946: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1947: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1948: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1949: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1950: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1951: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1952: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1953: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1954: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1955: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1956: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1957: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1958: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1959: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1960: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1961: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1962:
1.51 deraadt 1963: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1964: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1965: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1966: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1967: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1968: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1969: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1970: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1971: <p>
1972:
1.53 jakob 1973: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1974: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1975: meeting</a></strong>,
1976: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1977: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1978: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1979: <p>
1980:
1.132 louis 1981: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1982: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1983: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1984: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1985: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1986: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1987: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1988: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1989: <p>
1.236 jose 1990: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1991:
1.132 louis 1992: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1993:
1.236 jose 1994: <ul>
1.132 louis 1995: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1996: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1997: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1998: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1999: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2000: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2001: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2002: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2003: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2004: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2005: <p>
2006:
1.236 jose 2007: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2008: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2009: Conference</a></strong>,
2010: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2011: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2012: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2013: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2014: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2015: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2016: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2017: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2018: <br>
2019: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2020: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2021: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2022: <p>
2023:
1.73 deraadt 2024: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2025: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2026: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2027: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2028: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2029: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2030: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2031: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2032: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2033:
1.236 jose 2034: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2035: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2036: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2037: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2038: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2039: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2040: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2041: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2042:
1.80 deraadt 2043: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2044: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2045: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2046: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2047: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2048: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2049: <p>
2050:
1.93 louis 2051: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2052: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2053: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2054: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2055: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2056: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2057: <p>
2058:
1.216 jose 2059: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2060: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2061: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2062: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2063: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2064: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2065: <p>
2066:
1.236 jose 2067: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2068: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2069: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2070: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2071: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2072: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2073: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2074: <br>
2075: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2076: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2077: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2078: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2079: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2080:
1.236 jose 2081: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2082: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2083: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2084: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2085: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2086: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2087: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2088: <p>
2089:
1.236 jose 2090: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2091: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2092: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2093: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2094: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2095: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2096: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2097: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2098: <br>
2099: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2100: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2101: <p>
2102:
1.105 wvdputte 2103: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2104: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2105: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2106: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2107: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2108: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2109: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2110: <br>
1.132 louis 2111: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2112: <p>
1.236 jose 2113: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2114:
1.132 louis 2115: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2116:
1.236 jose 2117: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2118: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2119: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2120: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2121: Niels held a
2122: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2123: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2124: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2125: <p>
1.132 louis 2126:
1.236 jose 2127: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2128: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2129: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2130: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2131: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2132: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2133:
1.236 jose 2134: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2135: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2136: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2137: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2138: <br>
2139: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2140: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2141: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2142: <p>
2143:
1.125 deraadt 2144: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2145: <a
2146: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2147: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2148: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2149: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2150: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2151:
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