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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:
1.588 ! espie 41: <h3>2007</h3>
! 42:
! 43: <ul>
! 44: <li><strong><a name="paris2007"></a>
! 45: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php">Solution Linux, Paris show</a></strong>,
! 46: January 30 - Feb. 1st, 2007, Paris, France.<br>
! 47: There should be an OpenBSD booth, with the usual suspects.
! 48: <p>
! 49: </ul>
! 50:
1.445 martin 51: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 52:
53: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 54:
1.588 ! espie 55: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
1.579 wvdputte 56: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
57: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
58: For details, please email <a href=mailto:grange@opensd.org>Grange</a>
59: <p>
60:
1.588 ! espie 61: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 62: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
63: Berlin</a></strong>,
64: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
65: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.578 martin 66: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, reyk, sturm, uwe, martin and
1.577 mbalmer 67: wvdputte will be
68: there to chat with you and discuss OpenBSD stuff. More OpenBSD developers will
69: likely step in.
70: <p>
71: </ul>
72:
73: <hr>
74:
75: <h2>Past events:</h2>
76:
77: <h3>2006</h3>
78: <ul>
79:
1.515 tom 80: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
81: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 82: 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 83: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 84: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
85: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 86: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 87: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 88: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 89: <p>
1.535 deraadt 90: <ul>
1.581 claudio 91: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
92: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 93: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
94: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.537 deraadt 95: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
1.584 jsg 96: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
97: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 98: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.578 martin 99: <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 100: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
101: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 102: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 103: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
104: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 105: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 106: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 107: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
108: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
109: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 110: stuff.
111: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 112:
1.575 reyk 113: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
114: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
115: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
116: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
117: as a reference project for secure software.
118: <p>
119:
1.583 henning 120: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
121: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
122: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
123: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
124: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
125: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
126: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
127: <p>
128:
1.565 krw 129: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
130: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
131: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
132: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 133: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
134: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 135: <p>
136:
1.559 jason 137: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
138: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
139: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
140: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
141: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 142: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 143: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 144: <ul>
145: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 146: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
147: <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>]
148: <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>]
149: <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 150: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
151: </ul>
152: <p>
153:
1.556 fgsch 154: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
155: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
156: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 157: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
158: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 159: <p>
160:
1.553 grunk 161: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
162: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
163: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
164: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
165: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
166: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
167: and some other volunteers.
168: <p>
169:
1.551 deraadt 170: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
171: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
172: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
173: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
174: vendors to open up their documentation.
175: <p>
176:
1.550 henning 177: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
178: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
179: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
180: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
181: <p>
182:
1.547 aanriot 183: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
184: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
185: 2006</a></strong>,
186: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
187: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
188: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
189: <p>
190:
1.546 mcbride 191: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
192: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
193: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
194: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
195: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
196: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
197: and
198: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
199: <p>
200:
1.532 wvdputte 201: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
202: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
203: </a></strong>,
204: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
205: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
206: <p>
207:
1.528 wvdputte 208: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
209: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
210: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
211: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
212: <p>
213:
1.525 wvdputte 214: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
215: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
216: </strong>,
217: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
218: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
219: <p>
220:
1.521 fkr 221: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
222: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
223: </strong>,
224: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
225: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
226: <p>
227:
1.518 tedu 228: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
229: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
230: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
231: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
232: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
236: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
237: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
238: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD".
239: <p>
1.475 deraadt 240:
1.510 wvdputte 241: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
242: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
243: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
244: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
245: Serge Basterot.
246: <p>
247:
1.508 wvdputte 248: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
249: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
250: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
251: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 252: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 253: Tim Kornau.
254: <p>
255:
1.507 mbalmer 256: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
257: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
258: </strong>,
259: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
260: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
261: <p>
262:
1.506 deraadt 263: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 264: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 265: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
266: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
267: gave a talk
268: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
269: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
270: and live demonstration on redundant failover
271: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
272: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
273: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
274: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
275: <p>
276:
1.502 mbalmer 277: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
278: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
279: </strong>
280: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
281: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 282: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 283: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
284: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
288: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
289: </strong>,
290: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
291: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
292: <p>
293:
1.500 deraadt 294: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
295: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
296: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 297: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
298: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 299: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
300: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
301: <p>
302:
1.585 aanriot 303: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 304: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
305: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 306: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 307: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 308: <p>
309:
1.491 bernd 310: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
311: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
312: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
313: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
314: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
315: PF tutorial</a>.
316: <p>
317:
1.490 reyk 318: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
319: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
320: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
321: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
322: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
323: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
324: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
325: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
326: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
327: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
328: <p>
329:
1.489 bernd 330: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
331: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
332: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
333: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
334: the overall system and its great features.
335: <p>
336:
1.484 mbalmer 337: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
338: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
339: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
340: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
341: <ul>
342: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
343: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 344: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 345: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
346: distributions...
347: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
348: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 349: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 350: infrastructure.
351: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
352: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
353: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
354: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
355: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
356: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
357: </ul>
358: <br>
359: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 360: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 361: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
362: <br>
363: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
364: usual suspects.
365: <p>
366:
367: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
368: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
369: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
370: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
371: <p>
372:
1.486 mickey 373: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
374: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
375: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
376: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 377: (<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 378: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
379: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
380: <p>
381:
1.484 mbalmer 382: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
384: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
385: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
386: talk. There is a
387: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
388: <p>
389:
1.478 mbalmer 390: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
391: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
392: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
393: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
394: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
395: well received.
396: <br>
397: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
398: and we could draw a lot of attention.
399: <p>
400:
1.479 deraadt 401: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
402: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
403: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
404: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 405: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
406: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
407: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 408: only).
409: <p>
410:
1.475 deraadt 411: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
412: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
413: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
414: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
415: Jason Dixon presented
416: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
417: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
418: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
419: <br>
420: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
421: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
422: <p>
423:
424: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
425: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
426: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
427: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
428: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
429: <br>
430: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
431: on sale.
432: <p>
433:
1.469 tom 434: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
435: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
436: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
437: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
438: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
439: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
440: Peter N. M. Hansteen
441: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
442: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
443: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
444: drivers for OpenBSD".
445: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
446: <p>
447:
1.459 henning 448: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
449: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
450: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
451: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
452: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
453: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
454: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
455: <p>
456:
1.457 wvdputte 457: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
458: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
459: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
460: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 461: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 462: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
463: BSD dinner. More details and
464: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 465: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 466: <p>
467:
468: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
469: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
470: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
471: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
472: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
473: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
474: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
475: <p>
1.455 grunk 476:
1.456 henning 477: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
478: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
479: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
480: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
481: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
482: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
483: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
484: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
485: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
486: <p>
487:
1.455 grunk 488: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
489: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
490: </strong>,
491: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
492: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
493: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
494: <p>
495: </ul>
496:
1.296 mcbride 497: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 498:
499: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 500:
1.445 martin 501: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
502: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
503: Berlin</a></strong>,
504: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
505: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
506: <p>
507:
1.585 aanriot 508: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 509: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
510: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
511: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 512: <p>
513:
1.435 matthieu 514: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
515: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
516: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
517: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
518: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 519: event.
1.444 grunk 520: The program included a
521: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 522: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
523: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 524: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
525: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 526: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 527: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 528: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 529: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 530: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 531: <p>
1.435 matthieu 532: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
533: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
534: <p>
535:
1.434 bernd 536: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
537: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
538: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
539: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
540: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
541: <p>
542:
1.441 niallo 543: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
544: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
545: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
546: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
547: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
548: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
549: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
550: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
551: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
552: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
553: scripts.
554: <p>
555:
1.424 mbalmer 556: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
557: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
558: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 559: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
560: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
561: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 562: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 563: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 564: talks, including
565: <ul>
566: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
567: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
568: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
569: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
570: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
571: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 572: <p>
573:
574: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
575: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
576: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 577: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 578: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
579: <p>
580:
1.418 djm 581: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
582: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
583: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
584: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
585: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
586: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
587: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 588: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
589: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
590: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 591: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
592: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
593: <p>
594:
1.415 aanriot 595: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
596: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
597: 2005</a></strong>,
598: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
599: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
600: help of Thierry Thomas.
601: <p>
602:
1.420 deraadt 603: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
604: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
605: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
606: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
607: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
608: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
609: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
610: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
611: registration was mandatory.<br>
612: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 613: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 614: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
615: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
616: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 617: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 618: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
619: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
620: mechanism.
621: <p>
622:
1.414 bernd 623: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
624: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
625: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
626: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
627: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
628: <p>
629:
630: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
631: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
632: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
633: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
634: <p>
635:
1.410 wvdputte 636: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 637: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 638: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 639: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 640: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 641: <p>
642:
643: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
644: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
645: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
646: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 647: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 648: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
649: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
650: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
651: installed on your computer.
652: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 653: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 654: <p>
655:
1.404 wvdputte 656: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
657: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 658: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 659: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
660: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 661: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 662: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
663: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
664: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
665: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
666: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
667: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
671: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
672: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
673: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
674: <p>
675:
1.403 henning 676: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
677: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 678: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 679: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
680: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
681: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
682: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
683: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
684: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
685: <p>
686:
1.388 tom 687: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
688: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
689: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 690: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 691: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
692: <p>
693:
1.385 mickey 694: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 695: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 696: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 697: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
698: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 699: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
700: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 701: and an excellent
702: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
703: If you want to see what happened previously, check
704: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
705: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
706: <p>
707:
1.382 pedro 708: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 709: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 710: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 711: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 712: <p>
713:
1.378 aanriot 714: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
715: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 716: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 717: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
718: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
719: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
720: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 721: <p>
722:
1.375 grunk 723: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
724: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 725: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 726: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
727: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
728: <p>
729:
1.374 grunk 730: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
731: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 732: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 733: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
734: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
735: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
736: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
737: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
738: <p>
739:
1.371 deraadt 740: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
741: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 742: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 743: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
744: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
745: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
746: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
747: He demonstrated how companies can easily
748: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
749: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
750: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
751: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
752: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
753: <p>
754:
1.366 martin 755: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
756: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
757: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
758: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
759: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
760: CDs and shirts.
761: <p>
762:
1.365 mcbride 763: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
764: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
765: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
766: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
767: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
768: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
769: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
770: <br>
771: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
772: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
773: <p>
774:
1.362 reyk 775: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
776: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
777: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
778: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
779: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
780: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
781: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
782: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
783: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
784: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
785: <p>
786:
1.358 mcbride 787: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
788: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
789: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
790: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
791: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
792: <p>
793:
1.357 henning 794: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
795: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
796: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
797: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
798: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
799: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
800: <p>
801:
1.384 tom 802: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 803: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 804: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 805: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
806: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
807: packages work in front of about 30 people.
808: <p>
809:
1.353 henning 810: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
811: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 812: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 813: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
814: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
815: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
816: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 817: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 818: <p>
819:
1.352 henning 820: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
821: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 822: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 823: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
824: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
825: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
826: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
827: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
828: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
829: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
830: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
831: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
832: available if you couldn't make it there.
833: <p>
834:
1.350 marius 835: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
836:
837: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 838: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 839: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
840: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
841: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
842: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
843: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 844: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 845: <p>
846:
1.345 henning 847: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
848: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 849: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1.345 henning 850: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
851: <p>
852:
1.585 aanriot 853: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 854: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
855: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 856: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 857: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 858: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 859: <p>
860:
1.337 deraadt 861: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
862: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 863: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 864: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
865: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 866: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 867: source firewalls.
868: <p>
869:
1.317 henning 870: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
871: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
872: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 873: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 874: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 875: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 876: <p>
877:
1.312 deraadt 878: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
879: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
880: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 881: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
882: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 883: <p>
884:
1.319 saad 885: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
886: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
887: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
888: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
889: <p>
890:
1.310 mickey 891: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 892: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 893: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 894: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 895: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 896: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 897: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 898: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 899: <p>
1.312 deraadt 900:
1.308 deraadt 901: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
902: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
903: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
904: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 905: talks. Topics included
906: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 907: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
908: OpenBGPD, and pf.
909: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 910: <p>
911:
1.304 saad 912: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
913: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
914: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
915: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
916: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 917: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 918: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 919: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
920: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 921: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 922: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
923: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
924: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 925: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 926: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
927: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
928: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
929: <p>
1.301 saad 930: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
931: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
932: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
933: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
934: <p>
935: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
936: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
937: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
938: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
939: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
940: <p>
1.293 saad 941: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
942: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
943: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
944: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
945: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
946: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 947: french translation team.<br>
948: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
949: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
950: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
951: available.<br>
952: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 953: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
954: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
955: <p>
1.296 mcbride 956: </ul>
1.293 saad 957:
1.296 mcbride 958: <h3>2004</h3>
959:
960: <ul>
1.287 henning 961: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
962: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 963: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 964: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
965: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
966: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 967: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 968: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
969: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
970: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
971: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
972: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
973: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 974: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 975: driver.
976: <p>
1.248 deraadt 977:
1.286 kevlo 978: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 979: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 980: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
981: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
982: <p>
983:
1.285 deraadt 984: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
985: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
986: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
987: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
988: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
989: <p>
990:
1.283 saad 991: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
992: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
993: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
994: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
995: meeting of the
996: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
997: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 998: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 999: <p>
1000:
1.282 henning 1001: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1002: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1003: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1004: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1005: two days, on bgpd
1006: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1007: ntpd
1008: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1009: and signal handlers
1010: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1011: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1012: <p>
1013:
1.275 deraadt 1014: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1015: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1016: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1017: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1018: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1019: Room B-02 of the
1020: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1021: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1022: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1023: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1024: The talk was also given the following day at the
1025: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1026: <p>
1027:
1.271 henning 1028: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1029: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1030: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1031: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1032: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1033: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1034: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1035: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1036: <p>
1037:
1038: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1039: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1040: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1041: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1042: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1043: <p>
1044:
1.276 deraadt 1045: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1046: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1047: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1048: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1049: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1053: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1054: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1055: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1056: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1060: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1061: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1062: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1063: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1064: <p>
1065:
1.268 krw 1066: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1067: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1068: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1069: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1070: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1071: <p>
1072:
1.375 grunk 1073: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1074: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1075: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1076: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1077: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1078: <p>
1079:
1080: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1082: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1083: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1084: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1085: <p>
1086:
1.265 wvdputte 1087: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1088: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1089: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1090: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1091: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1092: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1093: event."
1094: <br>
1095: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1096: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1097: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1098: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1099: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1100: <br>
1101: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1102: <p>
1103:
1.262 henning 1104: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1105: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1106: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1107: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1108: Henning's slides from his talks about
1109: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1110: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1111: are available.
1112: <p>
1113:
1.261 deraadt 1114: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1115: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1116: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1117: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1118: newly extended version of the
1119: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1120: For more information, see this
1121: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1122: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1123: <p>
1124:
1125:
1.257 saad 1126: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1127: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1128: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1129: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1130: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1131: <p>
1132:
1133: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1134: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1135: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1136: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1137: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1138: <p>
1139:
1.256 mickey 1140: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1141: Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.256 mickey 1142: Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
1143: session.
1144: <p>
1145:
1.254 xsa 1146: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1147: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1148: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1149: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1150: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1151: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1152: a basic talk about pf.
1153: <p>
1154:
1.248 deraadt 1155: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1156: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1157: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1158: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1159: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1160: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1161: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1162: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1163: <p>
1164:
1.247 canacar 1165: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1166: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1167: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1168: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1169: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1170: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1171: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1172: projects were discussed.<br>
1173: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1174: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1175: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1176: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1177: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1178: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1179: <p>
1180:
1.242 henning 1181: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1182: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1183: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1184: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1185: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1186: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1187: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1188: and systrace
1.263 saad 1189: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1190: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1191: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1192: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1193: <p>
1194:
1.240 espie 1195: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1196: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1197: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1198: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1199: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1200: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1201: <p>
1202:
1203: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1204: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1205: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1206: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1207: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1208: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1209: <p>
1210: </ul>
1211:
1.188 henning 1212: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1213:
1214: <ul>
1.232 jose 1215: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1216: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1217: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1218: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1219: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1220: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1221: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1222: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1223: <p>
1.232 jose 1224:
1.228 jose 1225: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1226: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1227: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1228: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1229: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1230: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1231: with OpenBSD PF.
1232: <p>
1233:
1234: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1235: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1236: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1237: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1238: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1239: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1240: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1241: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1242: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1243: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1244: slides in PDF format </a>
1245: (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 1246: <p>
1247:
1.227 jose 1248: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1249: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1250: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1251: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1252: <p>
1253:
1254: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1255: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1256: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1257: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1258: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1259: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1260: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1261: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1262: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1263: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1264: in Internet worm defenses.
1265: <p>
1266:
1.224 miod 1267: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1268: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1269: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1270: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1271: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1272: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1273: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1274: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1275: OpenBSD.
1276: <p>
1277:
1278: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1279: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1280: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1281: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1282: <p>
1283:
1284: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1285: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1286: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1287: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1288: <p>
1289:
1.219 jose 1290: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1291: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1292: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1293: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1294: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1295: <p>
1296:
1.218 jose 1297: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1298: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1299: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1300: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1301: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1302: <p>
1303:
1.214 henning 1304: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1305: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1306: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1307: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1308: <p>
1309:
1.213 jose 1310: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1311: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1312: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1313: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1314: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1315: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1316: <p>
1317:
1.211 jose 1318: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1319: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1320: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1321: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1322: <p>
1323:
1324: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1325: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1326: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1327: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1328: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1329: <p>
1330:
1.209 wvdputte 1331: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1332: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1333: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1334: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1335: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1336:
1.202 jason 1337: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1338: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1339: Conference</a></strong>,
1340: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1341: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1342: <ul>
1.216 jose 1343: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1344: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1345: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1346: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1347: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1348: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1349: </ul>
1350: <p>
1351:
1.201 deraadt 1352: <li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
1.216 jose 1353: May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
1.201 deraadt 1354: Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
1355: session.
1356: <p>
1357:
1.216 jose 1358: <li><strong>
1359: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1360: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1361: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1362: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1363: <p>
1364:
1.216 jose 1365: <li><strong>
1366: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1367: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1368: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1369: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1370: <p>
1371:
1.216 jose 1372: <li><strong>
1373: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1374: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1375: 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 1376: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1377: <p>
1378:
1.216 jose 1379: <li><strong>
1380: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1381: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1382: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1383: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1384: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1385: user groups.
1386: <p>
1387:
1.236 jose 1388: <li><strong>
1389: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1390: Group</a></strong>,
1391: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1392: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1393: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1394: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1395: <p>
1396:
1.216 jose 1397: <li><strong>
1398: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1399: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1400: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1401: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1402: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1403: <p>
1404:
1.216 jose 1405: <li><strong>
1406: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1407: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1408: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1409: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1410: <p>
1.236 jose 1411: </ul>
1.185 miod 1412:
1.161 millert 1413: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1414:
1415: <ul>
1416: <li><strong>
1417: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1418: Congress</a></strong>,
1419: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1420: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1421: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1422: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1423: <p>
1.177 jason 1424:
1.216 jose 1425: <li><strong>
1426: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1427: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1428: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1429: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1430: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1431: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1432: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1433: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1434: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1435: <p>
1.178 pb 1436:
1.216 jose 1437: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1438: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1439: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1440: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1441: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1442: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1443: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1444: <p>
1445:
1.216 jose 1446: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1447: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1448: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1449: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1450: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1451: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1452: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1453: <p>
1454:
1455: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1456: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1457: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1458: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1459: Niels Provos presented his
1460: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1461: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1462: <p>
1.172 miod 1463:
1.216 jose 1464: <li><strong>
1465: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1466: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1467: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1468: <p>
1469:
1.216 jose 1470: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1471: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1472: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1473: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1474: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1475: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1476: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1477: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1478: <p>
1.168 miod 1479:
1.216 jose 1480: <li><strong>
1481: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1482: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1483: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1484: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1485: are available.
1.161 millert 1486: <p>
1487:
1.216 jose 1488: <li><strong>
1489: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1490: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1491: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1492: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1493: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1494: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1495: <p>
1496:
1.216 jose 1497: <li><strong>
1498: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1499: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1500: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1501: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1502: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1503: <p>
1.236 jose 1504: </ul>
1.164 millert 1505:
1.152 jakob 1506: <h3>2001</h3>
1507:
1.236 jose 1508: <ul>
1.216 jose 1509: <li><strong>
1510: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1511: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1512: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1513: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1514: <p>
1515:
1.216 jose 1516: <li><strong>
1517: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1518: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1519: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1520: <p>
1521:
1.158 deraadt 1522: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1523: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1524: 2001</a></strong>,
1525: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1526: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1527: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1528: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1529: <p>
1530:
1.216 jose 1531: <li><strong>
1532: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1533: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1534: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1535: <p>
1536:
1.201 deraadt 1537: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1538: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1539: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1540: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1541:
1.150 wvdputte 1542: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1543: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1544: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1545: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1546: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1547: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1548: <p>
1.137 aaron 1549:
1550: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1551: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1552: Conference</a></strong>,
1553: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1554: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1555: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1556: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1557: <p>
1558:
1559: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1560: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1561: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1562: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1563: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1564: <p>
1565:
1566: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1567: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1568: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1569: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1570: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1571: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1572: <p>
1573:
1574: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1575: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1576: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1577: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1578: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1579: <p>
1580:
1581: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1582: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1583: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1584: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1585: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1586: security community.
1587: <p>
1588:
1589: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1590: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1591: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1592: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1593: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1594: <p>
1595:
1596: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1597: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1598: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1599: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1600: <p>
1.236 jose 1601: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1602:
1.132 louis 1603: <h3>2000</h3>
1604:
1.236 jose 1605: <ul>
1.132 louis 1606: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1607: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1608: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1609: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1610: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1611: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1612: <p>
1613:
1614: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1615: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1616: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1617: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1618: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1619: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1620: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1621: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1622: <p>
1623:
1624: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1625: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1626: 2000</a></strong>,
1627: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1628: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1629: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1630: <p>
1.4 millert 1631:
1.132 louis 1632: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1633: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1634: Summit</a></strong>,
1635: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1636: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1637: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1638: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1639:
1640: <ul>
1.236 jose 1641: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1642: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1643: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1644: </ul>
1.4 millert 1645: <p>
1.132 louis 1646:
1.7 deraadt 1647: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1648: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1649: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1650: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1651: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1652: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1653: mind (drinks afterwards).
1654: <p>
1655:
1.216 jose 1656: <li><strong>
1657: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1658: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1659: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1660: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1661: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1662:
1.132 louis 1663: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1664: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1665: Revolution</a></strong>,
1666: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1667: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1668: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1669: <p>
1670:
1.132 louis 1671: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1672: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1673: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1674: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1675: <ul>
1.236 jose 1676: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1677: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1678: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1679: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1680: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1681: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1682: <p>
1.132 louis 1683:
1.10 provos 1684: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1685: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1686: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1687: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1688: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1689: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1690: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1691: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1692: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1693: <br>
1694: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1695: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1696: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1697:
1.132 louis 1698: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1699: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1700: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1701: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1702: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1703: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1704: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1705: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1706: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1707: and spoke about
1708: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1709: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1710: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1711: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1712: <p>
1.132 louis 1713:
1.6 deraadt 1714: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1715: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1716: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1717: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1718: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1719: <br>
1720: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1721: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1722: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1723: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1724:
1.216 jose 1725: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1726: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1727: Conference.</a></strong>,
1728: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1729: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1730: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1731: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1732: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1733: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1734: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1735: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1736: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1737: <ul>
1738:
1739: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1740: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1741: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1742: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1743: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1744:
1745: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1746: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1747: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1748: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1749: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1750:
1.132 louis 1751: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1752: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1753: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1754: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1755: <p>
1756:
1.132 louis 1757: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1758: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1759: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1760: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1761: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1762: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1763: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1764: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1765:
1.132 louis 1766: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1767: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1768: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1769: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1770: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1771: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1772: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1773: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1774: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1775:
1.17 deraadt 1776: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1777: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1778: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1779: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1780: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1781: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1782: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1783: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1784: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1785:
1.23 niklas 1786: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1787: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1788: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1789: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1790: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1791: efforts.
1792: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1793: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1794: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1795: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1796: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1797: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1798:
1.132 louis 1799: <li><strong>
1800: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1801: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1802: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1803: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1804: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1805: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1806: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1807: <p>
1.23 niklas 1808:
1.31 deraadt 1809: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1810: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1811: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1812: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1813: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1814: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1815: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1816: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1817: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1818: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1819:
1.201 deraadt 1820: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1821: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1822: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1823: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1824: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1825: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1826: <p>
1.236 jose 1827: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1828:
1.132 louis 1829: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1830:
1.236 jose 1831: <ul>
1.216 jose 1832: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1833: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1834: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1835: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1836: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1837: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1838: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1839: <p>
1840:
1.216 jose 1841: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1842: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1843: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1844: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1845: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1846: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1847: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1848: There were many other OpenBSD
1849: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1850: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1851:
1852: <ul>
1853: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1854: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1855: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1856: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1857: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1858: </ul>
1859: <p>
1860:
1861: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1862: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1863: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1864: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1865: <p>
1866:
1867: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1868: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1869: Software '99</a></strong>,
1870: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1871: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1872: <a
1.375 grunk 1873: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1874: <p>
1875:
1876: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1877: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1878: 1999</a></strong>,
1879: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1880: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1881: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1882: <p>
1883:
1.236 jose 1884: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1885: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1886: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1887: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1888: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1889: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1890: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1891: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1892: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1893: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1894: conference in Stockholm.
1895: <p>
1896:
1897: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1898: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1899: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1900: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1901: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1902: coordinated.
1903: <p>
1904:
1905: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1906: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1907: Security</a></strong>,
1908: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1909: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1910: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1911: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1912: significant security roles.
1913: <p>
1914:
1915: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1917: meeting</a></strong>,
1918: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1919: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1920: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1921: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1922: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1923: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1924: <p>
1.45 jason 1925:
1.132 louis 1926: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1927: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1928: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1929: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1930: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1931: <p>
1.132 louis 1932:
1.236 jose 1933: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1934: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1935: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1936: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1937: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1938: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1939: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1940: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1941: June.)
1.132 louis 1942: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1943: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1944: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1945:
1.375 grunk 1946: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1947: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1948: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1949: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1950: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1951: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1952: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1953: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1954: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1955: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1956: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1957: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1958: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1959: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1960: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1961: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1962: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1963: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1964: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1965: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1966: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1967: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1968: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1969: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1970: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1971: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1972: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1973: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1974:
1.51 deraadt 1975: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1976: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1977: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1978: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1979: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1980: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1981: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1982: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1983: <p>
1984:
1.53 jakob 1985: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1986: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1987: meeting</a></strong>,
1988: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1989: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1990: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1991: <p>
1992:
1.132 louis 1993: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1994: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1995: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1996: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1997: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1998: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1999: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2000: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2001: <p>
1.236 jose 2002: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2003:
1.132 louis 2004: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2005:
1.236 jose 2006: <ul>
1.132 louis 2007: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2008: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2009: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2010: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2011: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2012: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2013: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2014: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2015: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2016: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2017: <p>
2018:
1.236 jose 2019: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2020: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2021: Conference</a></strong>,
2022: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2023: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2024: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2025: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2026: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2027: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2028: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2029: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2030: <br>
2031: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2032: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2033: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2034: <p>
2035:
1.73 deraadt 2036: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2037: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2038: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2039: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2040: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2041: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2042: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2043: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2044: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2045:
1.236 jose 2046: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2047: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2048: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2049: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2050: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2051: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2052: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2053: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2054:
1.80 deraadt 2055: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2056: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2057: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2058: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2059: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2060: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2061: <p>
2062:
1.93 louis 2063: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2064: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2065: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2066: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2067: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2068: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2069: <p>
2070:
1.216 jose 2071: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2072: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2073: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2074: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2075: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2076: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2077: <p>
2078:
1.236 jose 2079: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2080: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2081: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2082: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2083: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2084: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2085: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2086: <br>
2087: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2088: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2089: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2090: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2091: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2092:
1.236 jose 2093: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2094: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2095: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2096: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2097: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2098: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2099: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2100: <p>
2101:
1.236 jose 2102: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2103: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2104: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2105: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2106: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2107: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2108: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2109: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2110: <br>
2111: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2112: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2113: <p>
2114:
1.105 wvdputte 2115: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2116: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2117: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2118: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2119: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2120: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2121: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2122: <br>
1.132 louis 2123: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2124: <p>
1.236 jose 2125: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2126:
1.132 louis 2127: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2128:
1.236 jose 2129: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2130: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2131: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2132: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2133: Niels held a
2134: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2135: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2136: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2137: <p>
1.132 louis 2138:
1.236 jose 2139: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2140: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2141: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2142: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2143: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2144: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2145:
1.236 jose 2146: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2147: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2148: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2149: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2150: <br>
2151: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2152: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2153: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2154: <p>
2155:
1.125 deraadt 2156: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2157: <a
2158: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2159: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2160: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2161: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2162: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2163:
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