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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
1.591 ! henning 66: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, reyk, sturm, uwe, martin,
! 67: henning and wvdputte will be
1.577 mbalmer 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:
1.589 aanriot 161: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
162: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
163: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
164: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
165: vendors to open up their documentation.
166: <p>
167:
1.553 grunk 168: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
169: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
170: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
171: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
172: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
173: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
174: and some other volunteers.
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>
1.590 mbalmer 238: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
239: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 240: <p>
1.475 deraadt 241:
1.510 wvdputte 242: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
243: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
244: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
245: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
246: Serge Basterot.
247: <p>
248:
1.508 wvdputte 249: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
250: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
251: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
252: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 253: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 254: Tim Kornau.
255: <p>
256:
1.507 mbalmer 257: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
258: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
259: </strong>,
260: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
261: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
262: <p>
263:
1.506 deraadt 264: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 265: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 266: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
267: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
268: gave a talk
269: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
270: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
271: and live demonstration on redundant failover
272: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
273: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
274: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
275: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
276: <p>
277:
1.502 mbalmer 278: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
279: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
280: </strong>
281: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
282: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 283: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 284: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
285: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
286: <p>
287:
1.500 deraadt 288: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
289: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
290: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 291: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
292: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 293: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
294: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
295: <p>
296:
1.589 aanriot 297: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
298: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
299: </strong>,
300: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
301: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
302: <p>
303:
1.585 aanriot 304: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 305: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
306: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 307: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 308: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 309: <p>
310:
1.491 bernd 311: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
312: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
313: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
314: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
315: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
316: PF tutorial</a>.
317: <p>
318:
1.490 reyk 319: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
320: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
321: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
322: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
323: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
324: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
325: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
326: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
327: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
328: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
329: <p>
330:
1.489 bernd 331: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
332: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
333: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
334: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
335: the overall system and its great features.
336: <p>
337:
1.589 aanriot 338: <li><strong><a name =idepes2006></a>
339: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
340: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
341: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
342: <p>
343:
1.484 mbalmer 344: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2006></a>
345: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
346: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
347: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
348: <ul>
349: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
350: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 351: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 352: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
353: distributions...
354: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
355: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 356: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 357: infrastructure.
358: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker, "Routing with
359: OpenBSD using OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD" where he showed various routing
360: setups and how full redundancy can be achieved.
361: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
362: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
363: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
364: </ul>
365: <br>
366: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 367: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 368: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
369: <br>
370: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
371: usual suspects.
372: <p>
373:
1.486 mickey 374: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
375: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
376: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
377: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 378: (<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 379: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
380: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
381: <p>
382:
1.484 mbalmer 383: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
384: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
385: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
386: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
387: talk. There is a
388: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
389: <p>
390:
1.478 mbalmer 391: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
392: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
393: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
394: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
395: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
396: well received.
397: <br>
398: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
399: and we could draw a lot of attention.
400: <p>
401:
1.479 deraadt 402: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
403: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
404: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
405: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 406: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
407: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
408: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 409: only).
410: <p>
411:
1.475 deraadt 412: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
413: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
414: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
415: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
416: Jason Dixon presented
417: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
418: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
419: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
420: <br>
421: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
422: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
423: <p>
424:
425: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
426: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
427: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
428: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
429: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
430: <br>
431: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
432: on sale.
433: <p>
434:
1.469 tom 435: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
436: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
437: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
438: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
439: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
440: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
441: Peter N. M. Hansteen
442: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
443: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
444: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
445: drivers for OpenBSD".
446: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
447: <p>
448:
1.459 henning 449: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
450: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
451: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
452: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
453: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
454: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
455: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
456: <p>
457:
1.457 wvdputte 458: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
459: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
460: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
461: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 462: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 463: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
464: BSD dinner. More details and
465: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 466: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 467: <p>
468:
469: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
470: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
471: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
472: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
473: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
474: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
475: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
476: <p>
1.455 grunk 477:
1.456 henning 478: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
479: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
480: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
481: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
482: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
483: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
484: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
485: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
486: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
487: <p>
488:
1.455 grunk 489: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
490: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
491: </strong>,
492: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
493: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
494: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
495: <p>
496: </ul>
497:
1.296 mcbride 498: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 499:
500: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 501:
1.445 martin 502: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
503: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
504: Berlin</a></strong>,
505: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
506: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
507: <p>
508:
1.585 aanriot 509: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 510: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
511: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
512: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 513: <p>
514:
1.435 matthieu 515: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
516: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
517: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
518: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
519: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 520: event.
1.444 grunk 521: The program included a
522: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 523: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
524: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 525: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
526: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 527: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 528: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 529: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 530: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 531: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 532: <p>
1.435 matthieu 533: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
534: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
535: <p>
536:
1.434 bernd 537: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
538: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
539: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
540: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
541: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
542: <p>
543:
1.441 niallo 544: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
545: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
546: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
547: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
548: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
549: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
550: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
551: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
552: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
553: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
554: scripts.
555: <p>
556:
1.424 mbalmer 557: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
558: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
559: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 560: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
561: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
562: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 563: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 564: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 565: talks, including
566: <ul>
567: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
568: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
569: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
570: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
571: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
572: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 573: <p>
574:
575: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
576: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
577: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 578: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 579: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
580: <p>
581:
1.418 djm 582: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
583: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
584: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
585: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
586: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
587: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
588: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 589: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
590: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
591: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 592: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
593: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
594: <p>
595:
1.415 aanriot 596: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
597: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
598: 2005</a></strong>,
599: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
600: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
601: help of Thierry Thomas.
602: <p>
603:
1.420 deraadt 604: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
605: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
606: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
607: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
608: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
609: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
610: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
611: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
612: registration was mandatory.<br>
613: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 614: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 615: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
616: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
617: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 618: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 619: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
620: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
621: mechanism.
622: <p>
623:
1.414 bernd 624: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
625: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
626: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
627: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
628: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
629: <p>
630:
631: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
632: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
633: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
634: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
635: <p>
636:
1.410 wvdputte 637: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 638: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 639: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 640: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 641: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 642: <p>
643:
644: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
645: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
646: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
647: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 648: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 649: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
650: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
651: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
652: installed on your computer.
653: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 654: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 655: <p>
656:
1.404 wvdputte 657: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
658: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 659: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 660: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
661: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 662: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 663: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
664: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
665: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
666: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
667: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
668: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
672: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
673: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
674: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
675: <p>
676:
1.403 henning 677: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
678: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 679: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 680: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
681: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
682: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
683: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
684: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
685: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
686: <p>
687:
1.388 tom 688: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
689: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
690: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 691: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 692: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
693: <p>
694:
1.385 mickey 695: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 696: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 697: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 698: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
699: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 700: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
701: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 702: and an excellent
703: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
704: If you want to see what happened previously, check
705: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
706: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
707: <p>
708:
1.382 pedro 709: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 710: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 711: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 712: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 713: <p>
714:
1.378 aanriot 715: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
716: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 717: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 718: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
719: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
720: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
721: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 722: <p>
723:
1.375 grunk 724: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
725: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 726: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 727: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
728: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
729: <p>
730:
1.374 grunk 731: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
732: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 733: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 734: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
735: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
736: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
737: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
738: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
739: <p>
740:
1.371 deraadt 741: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
742: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 743: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 744: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
745: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
746: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
747: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
748: He demonstrated how companies can easily
749: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
750: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
751: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
752: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
753: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
754: <p>
755:
1.366 martin 756: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
757: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
758: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
759: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
760: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
761: CDs and shirts.
762: <p>
763:
1.365 mcbride 764: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
765: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
766: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
767: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
768: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
769: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
770: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
771: <br>
772: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
773: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
774: <p>
775:
1.362 reyk 776: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
777: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
778: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
779: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
780: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
781: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
782: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
783: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
784: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
785: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
786: <p>
787:
1.358 mcbride 788: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
789: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
790: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
791: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
792: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
793: <p>
794:
1.357 henning 795: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
796: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
797: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
798: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
799: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
800: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
801: <p>
802:
1.384 tom 803: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 804: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 805: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 806: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
807: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
808: packages work in front of about 30 people.
809: <p>
810:
1.353 henning 811: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
812: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 813: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 814: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
815: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
816: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
817: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 818: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 819: <p>
820:
1.352 henning 821: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
822: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 823: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 824: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
825: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
826: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
827: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
828: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
829: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
830: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
831: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
832: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
833: available if you couldn't make it there.
834: <p>
835:
1.589 aanriot 836:
837: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
838: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
839: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
840: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
841: <p>
842:
1.350 marius 843: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
844: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 845: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 846: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
847: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
848: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
849: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
850: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 851: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 852: <p>
853:
1.585 aanriot 854: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 855: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
856: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 857: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 858: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 859: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 860: <p>
861:
1.337 deraadt 862: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
863: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 864: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 865: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
866: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 867: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 868: source firewalls.
869: <p>
870:
1.317 henning 871: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
872: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
873: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 874: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 875: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 876: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 877: <p>
878:
1.312 deraadt 879: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
880: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
881: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 882: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
883: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 884: <p>
885:
1.319 saad 886: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
887: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
888: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
889: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
890: <p>
891:
1.310 mickey 892: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 893: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 894: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 895: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 896: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 897: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 898: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 899: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 900: <p>
1.312 deraadt 901:
1.308 deraadt 902: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
903: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
904: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
905: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 906: talks. Topics included
907: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 908: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
909: OpenBGPD, and pf.
910: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 911: <p>
912:
1.304 saad 913: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
914: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
915: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
916: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
917: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 918: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 919: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 920: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
921: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 922: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 923: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
924: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
925: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 926: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 927: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
928: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
929: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
930: <p>
1.301 saad 931: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
932: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
933: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
934: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
935: <p>
936: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
937: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
938: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
939: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
940: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
941: <p>
1.293 saad 942: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
943: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
944: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
945: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
946: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
947: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 948: french translation team.<br>
949: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
950: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
951: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
952: available.<br>
953: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 954: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
955: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
956: <p>
1.296 mcbride 957: </ul>
1.293 saad 958:
1.296 mcbride 959: <h3>2004</h3>
960:
961: <ul>
1.287 henning 962: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
963: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 964: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 965: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
966: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
967: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 968: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 969: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
970: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
971: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
972: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
973: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
974: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 975: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 976: driver.
977: <p>
1.248 deraadt 978:
1.286 kevlo 979: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 980: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 981: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
982: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
983: <p>
984:
1.285 deraadt 985: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
986: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
987: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
988: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
989: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
990: <p>
991:
1.283 saad 992: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
993: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
994: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
995: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
996: meeting of the
997: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
998: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 999: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1000: <p>
1001:
1.282 henning 1002: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1003: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1004: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1005: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1006: two days, on bgpd
1007: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1008: ntpd
1009: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1010: and signal handlers
1011: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1012: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1013: <p>
1014:
1.275 deraadt 1015: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1016: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1017: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1018: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1019: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1020: Room B-02 of the
1021: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1022: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1023: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1024: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1025: The talk was also given the following day at the
1026: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1027: <p>
1028:
1.271 henning 1029: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1030: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1031: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1032: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1033: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1034: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1035: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1036: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1037: <p>
1038:
1039: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1040: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1041: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1042: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1043: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1044: <p>
1045:
1.276 deraadt 1046: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1047: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1048: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1049: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1050: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1051: <p>
1052:
1053: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1054: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1055: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1056: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1057: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1061: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1062: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1063: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1064: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1065: <p>
1066:
1.268 krw 1067: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1068: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1069: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1070: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1071: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1072: <p>
1073:
1.375 grunk 1074: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1075: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1076: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1077: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1078: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1079: <p>
1080:
1081: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1082: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1083: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1084: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1085: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1086: <p>
1087:
1.265 wvdputte 1088: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1089: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1090: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1091: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1092: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1093: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1094: event."
1095: <br>
1096: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1097: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1098: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1099: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1100: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1101: <br>
1102: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1103: <p>
1104:
1.262 henning 1105: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1106: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1107: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1108: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1109: Henning's slides from his talks about
1110: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1111: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1112: are available.
1113: <p>
1114:
1.261 deraadt 1115: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1116: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1117: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1118: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1119: newly extended version of the
1120: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1121: For more information, see this
1122: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1123: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1124: <p>
1125:
1126:
1.257 saad 1127: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1128: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1129: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1130: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1131: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1132: <p>
1133:
1134: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1135: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1136: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1137: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1138: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1139: <p>
1140:
1.254 xsa 1141: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1142: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1143: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1144: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1145: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1146: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1147: a basic talk about pf.
1148: <p>
1149:
1.248 deraadt 1150: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1151: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1152: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1153: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1155: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1156: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1157: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1158: <p>
1159:
1.247 canacar 1160: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1161: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1162: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1163: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1164: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1165: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1166: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1167: projects were discussed.<br>
1168: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1169: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1170: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1171: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1172: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1173: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1174: <p>
1175:
1.242 henning 1176: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1177: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1178: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1179: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1180: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1181: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1182: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1183: and systrace
1.263 saad 1184: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1185: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1186: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1187: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1188: <p>
1189:
1.240 espie 1190: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1191: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1192: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1193: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1194: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1195: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1196: <p>
1197:
1198: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1199: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1200: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1201: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1202: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1203: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1204: <p>
1205: </ul>
1206:
1.188 henning 1207: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1208:
1209: <ul>
1.232 jose 1210: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1211: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1212: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1213: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1214: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1215: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1216: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1217: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1218: <p>
1.232 jose 1219:
1.228 jose 1220: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1221: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1222: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1223: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1224: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1225: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1226: with OpenBSD PF.
1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1230: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1231: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1232: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1233: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1234: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1235: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1236: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1237: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1238: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1239: slides in PDF format </a>
1240: (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 1241: <p>
1242:
1.227 jose 1243: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1244: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1245: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1246: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1247: <p>
1248:
1249: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1250: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1251: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1252: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1253: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1254: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1255: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1256: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1257: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1258: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1259: in Internet worm defenses.
1260: <p>
1261:
1.224 miod 1262: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1263: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1264: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1265: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1266: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1267: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1268: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1269: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1270: OpenBSD.
1271: <p>
1272:
1273: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1274: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1275: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1276: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1277: <p>
1278:
1279: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1280: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1281: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1282: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1283: <p>
1284:
1.219 jose 1285: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1286: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1287: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1288: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1289: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1290: <p>
1291:
1.218 jose 1292: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1293: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1294: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1295: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1296: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1297: <p>
1298:
1.214 henning 1299: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1300: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1301: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1302: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1303: <p>
1304:
1.213 jose 1305: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1306: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1307: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1308: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1309: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1310: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1311: <p>
1312:
1.211 jose 1313: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1314: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1315: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1316: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1317: <p>
1318:
1319: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1320: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1321: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1322: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1323: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.209 wvdputte 1326: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1327: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1328: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1329: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1330: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1331:
1.202 jason 1332: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1333: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1334: Conference</a></strong>,
1335: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1336: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1337: <ul>
1.216 jose 1338: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1339: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1340: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1341: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1342: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1343: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1344: </ul>
1345: <p>
1346:
1.216 jose 1347: <li><strong>
1348: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1349: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1350: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1351: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1352: <p>
1353:
1.216 jose 1354: <li><strong>
1355: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1356: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1357: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1358: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1359: <p>
1360:
1.216 jose 1361: <li><strong>
1362: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1363: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1364: 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 1365: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1366: <p>
1367:
1.216 jose 1368: <li><strong>
1369: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1370: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1371: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1372: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1373: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1374: user groups.
1375: <p>
1376:
1.236 jose 1377: <li><strong>
1378: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1379: Group</a></strong>,
1380: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1381: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1382: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1383: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1384: <p>
1385:
1.216 jose 1386: <li><strong>
1387: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1388: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1389: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1390: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1391: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1392: <p>
1393:
1.216 jose 1394: <li><strong>
1395: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1396: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1397: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1398: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1399: <p>
1.236 jose 1400: </ul>
1.185 miod 1401:
1.161 millert 1402: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1403:
1404: <ul>
1405: <li><strong>
1406: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1407: Congress</a></strong>,
1408: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1409: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1410: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1411: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1412: <p>
1.177 jason 1413:
1.216 jose 1414: <li><strong>
1415: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1416: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1417: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1418: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1419: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1420: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1421: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1422: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1423: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1424: <p>
1.178 pb 1425:
1.216 jose 1426: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1427: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1428: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1429: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1430: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1431: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1432: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1433: <p>
1434:
1.216 jose 1435: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1436: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1437: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1438: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1439: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1440: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1441: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1442: <p>
1443:
1444: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1445: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1446: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1447: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1448: Niels Provos presented his
1449: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1450: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1451: <p>
1.172 miod 1452:
1.216 jose 1453: <li><strong>
1454: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1455: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1456: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1457: <p>
1458:
1.216 jose 1459: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1460: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1461: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1462: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1463: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1464: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1465: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1466: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1467: <p>
1.168 miod 1468:
1.216 jose 1469: <li><strong>
1470: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1471: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1472: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1473: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1474: are available.
1.161 millert 1475: <p>
1476:
1.216 jose 1477: <li><strong>
1478: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1479: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1480: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1481: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1482: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1483: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1484: <p>
1485:
1.216 jose 1486: <li><strong>
1487: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1488: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1489: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1490: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1491: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1492: <p>
1.236 jose 1493: </ul>
1.164 millert 1494:
1.152 jakob 1495: <h3>2001</h3>
1496:
1.236 jose 1497: <ul>
1.216 jose 1498: <li><strong>
1499: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1500: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1501: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1502: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1503: <p>
1504:
1.216 jose 1505: <li><strong>
1506: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1507: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1508: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1509: <p>
1510:
1.158 deraadt 1511: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1512: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1513: 2001</a></strong>,
1514: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1515: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1516: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1517: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1518: <p>
1519:
1.216 jose 1520: <li><strong>
1521: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1522: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1523: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1524: <p>
1525:
1.201 deraadt 1526: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1527: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1528: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1529: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1530:
1.150 wvdputte 1531: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1532: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1533: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1534: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1535: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1536: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1537: <p>
1.137 aaron 1538:
1539: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1540: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1541: Conference</a></strong>,
1542: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1543: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1544: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1545: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1546: <p>
1547:
1548: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1549: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1550: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1551: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1552: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1553: <p>
1554:
1555: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1556: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1557: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1558: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1559: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1560: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1561: <p>
1562:
1563: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1564: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1565: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1566: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1567: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1568: <p>
1569:
1570: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1571: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1572: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1573: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1574: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1575: security community.
1576: <p>
1577:
1578: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1579: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1580: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1581: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1582: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1583: <p>
1584:
1585: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1586: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1587: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1588: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1589: <p>
1.236 jose 1590: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1591:
1.132 louis 1592: <h3>2000</h3>
1593:
1.236 jose 1594: <ul>
1.132 louis 1595: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1596: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1597: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1598: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1599: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1600: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1601: <p>
1602:
1603: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1604: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1605: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1606: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1607: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1608: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1609: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1610: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1611: <p>
1612:
1613: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1614: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1615: 2000</a></strong>,
1616: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1617: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1618: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1619: <p>
1.4 millert 1620:
1.132 louis 1621: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1622: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1623: Summit</a></strong>,
1624: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1625: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1626: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1627: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1628:
1629: <ul>
1.236 jose 1630: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1631: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1632: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1633: </ul>
1.4 millert 1634: <p>
1.132 louis 1635:
1.7 deraadt 1636: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1637: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1638: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1639: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1640: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1641: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1642: mind (drinks afterwards).
1643: <p>
1644:
1.216 jose 1645: <li><strong>
1646: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1647: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1648: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1649: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1650: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1651:
1.132 louis 1652: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1653: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1654: Revolution</a></strong>,
1655: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1656: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1657: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1658: <p>
1659:
1.132 louis 1660: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1661: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1662: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1663: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1664: <ul>
1.236 jose 1665: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1666: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1667: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1668: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1669: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1670: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1671: <p>
1.132 louis 1672:
1.10 provos 1673: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1674: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1675: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1676: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1677: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1678: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1679: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1680: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1681: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1682: <br>
1683: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1684: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1685: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1686:
1.132 louis 1687: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1688: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1689: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1690: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1691: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1692: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1693: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1694: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1695: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1696: and spoke about
1697: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1698: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1699: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1700: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1701: <p>
1.132 louis 1702:
1.6 deraadt 1703: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1704: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1705: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1706: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1707: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1708: <br>
1709: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1710: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1711: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1712: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1713:
1.216 jose 1714: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1715: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1716: Conference.</a></strong>,
1717: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1718: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1719: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1720: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1721: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1722: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1723: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1724: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1725: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1726: <ul>
1727:
1728: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1729: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1730: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1731: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1732: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1733:
1734: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1735: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1736: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1737: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1738: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1739:
1.132 louis 1740: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1741: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1742: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1743: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1744: <p>
1745:
1.132 louis 1746: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1747: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1748: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1749: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1750: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1751: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1752: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1753: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1754:
1.132 louis 1755: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1756: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1757: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1758: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1759: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1760: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1761: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1762: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1763: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1764:
1.17 deraadt 1765: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1766: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1767: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1768: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1769: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1770: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1771: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1772: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1773: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1774:
1.23 niklas 1775: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1776: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1777: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1778: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1779: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1780: efforts.
1781: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1782: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1783: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1784: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1785: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1786: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1787:
1.132 louis 1788: <li><strong>
1789: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1790: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1791: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1792: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1793: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1794: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1795: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1796: <p>
1.23 niklas 1797:
1.31 deraadt 1798: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1799: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1800: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1801: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1802: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1803: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1804: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1805: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1806: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1807: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1808:
1.201 deraadt 1809: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1810: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1811: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1812: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1813: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1814: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1815: <p>
1.236 jose 1816: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1817:
1.132 louis 1818: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1819:
1.236 jose 1820: <ul>
1.216 jose 1821: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1822: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1823: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1824: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1825: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1826: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1827: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1828: <p>
1829:
1.216 jose 1830: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1831: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1832: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1833: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1834: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1835: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1836: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1837: There were many other OpenBSD
1838: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1839: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1840:
1841: <ul>
1842: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1843: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1844: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1845: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1846: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1847: </ul>
1848: <p>
1849:
1850: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1851: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1852: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1853: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1854: <p>
1855:
1856: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1857: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1858: Software '99</a></strong>,
1859: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1860: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1861: <a
1.375 grunk 1862: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1863: <p>
1864:
1865: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1866: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1867: 1999</a></strong>,
1868: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1869: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1870: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1871: <p>
1872:
1.236 jose 1873: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1874: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1875: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1876: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1877: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1878: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1879: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1880: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1881: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1882: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1883: conference in Stockholm.
1884: <p>
1885:
1886: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1887: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1888: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1889: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1890: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1891: coordinated.
1892: <p>
1893:
1894: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1895: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1896: Security</a></strong>,
1897: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1898: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1899: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1900: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1901: significant security roles.
1902: <p>
1903:
1904: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1905: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1906: meeting</a></strong>,
1907: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1908: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1909: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1910: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1911: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1912: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1913: <p>
1.45 jason 1914:
1.132 louis 1915: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1916: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1917: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1918: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1919: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1920: <p>
1.132 louis 1921:
1.236 jose 1922: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1923: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1924: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1925: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1926: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1927: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1928: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1929: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1930: June.)
1.132 louis 1931: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1932: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1933: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1934:
1.375 grunk 1935: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1936: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1937: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1938: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1939: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1940: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1941: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1942: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1943: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1944: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1945: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1946: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1947: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1948: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1949: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1950: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1951: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1952: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1953: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1954: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1955: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1956: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1957: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1958: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1959: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1960: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1961: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1962: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1963:
1.51 deraadt 1964: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1965: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1966: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1967: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1968: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1969: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1970: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1971: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1972: <p>
1973:
1.53 jakob 1974: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1975: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1976: meeting</a></strong>,
1977: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1978: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1979: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1980: <p>
1981:
1.132 louis 1982: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1983: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1984: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1985: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1986: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1987: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1988: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1989: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1990: <p>
1.236 jose 1991: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1992:
1.132 louis 1993: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1994:
1.236 jose 1995: <ul>
1.132 louis 1996: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1997: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1998: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1999: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2000: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2001: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2002: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2003: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2004: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2005: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2006: <p>
2007:
1.236 jose 2008: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2009: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2010: Conference</a></strong>,
2011: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2012: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2013: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2014: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2015: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2016: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2017: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2018: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2019: <br>
2020: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2021: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2022: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2023: <p>
2024:
1.73 deraadt 2025: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2026: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2027: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2028: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2029: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2030: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2031: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2032: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2033: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2034:
1.236 jose 2035: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2036: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2037: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2038: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2039: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2040: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2041: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2042: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2043:
1.80 deraadt 2044: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2045: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2046: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2047: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2048: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2049: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2050: <p>
2051:
1.93 louis 2052: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2053: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2054: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2055: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2056: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2057: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2058: <p>
2059:
1.216 jose 2060: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2061: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2062: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2063: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2064: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2065: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2066: <p>
2067:
1.236 jose 2068: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2069: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2070: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2071: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2072: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2073: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2074: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2075: <br>
2076: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2077: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2078: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2079: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2080: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2081:
1.236 jose 2082: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2083: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2084: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2085: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2086: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2087: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2088: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2089: <p>
2090:
1.236 jose 2091: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2092: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2093: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2094: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2095: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2096: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2097: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2098: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2099: <br>
2100: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2101: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2102: <p>
2103:
1.105 wvdputte 2104: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2105: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2106: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2107: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2108: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2109: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2110: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2111: <br>
1.132 louis 2112: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2113: <p>
1.236 jose 2114: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2115:
1.132 louis 2116: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2117:
1.236 jose 2118: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2119: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2120: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2121: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2122: Niels held a
2123: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2124: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2125: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2126: <p>
1.132 louis 2127:
1.236 jose 2128: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2129: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2130: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2131: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2132: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2133: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2134:
1.236 jose 2135: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2136: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2137: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2138: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2139: <br>
2140: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2141: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2142: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2143: <p>
2144:
1.125 deraadt 2145: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2146: <a
2147: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2148: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2149: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2150: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2151: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2152:
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