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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="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 56: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
57: Berlin</a></strong>,
58: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
59: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD will be there, of course, for our annual
1.595 ! reyk 60: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.593 moritz 61: henning, moritz and wvdputte will be
1.577 mbalmer 62: there to chat with you and discuss OpenBSD stuff. More OpenBSD developers will
63: likely step in.
64: <p>
65: </ul>
66:
67: <hr>
68:
69: <h2>Past events:</h2>
70:
71: <h3>2006</h3>
72: <ul>
73:
1.594 mbalmer 74: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
75: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
76: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
77: For details, please email <a href=mailto:grange@opensd.org>Grange</a>
78: <p>
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:
1.592 claudio 338: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 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:
1.592 claudio 344: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 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.
1.592 claudio 358: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
359: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
360: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
361: how full redundancy can be achieved.
362: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 363: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
364: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
365: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
366: </ul>
367: <br>
368: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 369: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 370: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
371: <br>
372: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
373: usual suspects.
374: <p>
375:
1.486 mickey 376: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
377: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
378: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
379: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 380: (<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 381: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
382: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
383: <p>
384:
1.484 mbalmer 385: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
386: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
387: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
388: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
389: talk. There is a
390: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
391: <p>
392:
1.478 mbalmer 393: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
394: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
395: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
396: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
397: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
398: well received.
399: <br>
400: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
401: and we could draw a lot of attention.
402: <p>
403:
1.479 deraadt 404: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
405: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
406: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
407: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 408: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
409: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
410: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 411: only).
412: <p>
413:
1.475 deraadt 414: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
415: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
416: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
417: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
418: Jason Dixon presented
419: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
420: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
421: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
422: <br>
423: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
424: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
425: <p>
426:
427: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
428: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
429: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
430: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
431: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
432: <br>
433: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
434: on sale.
435: <p>
436:
1.469 tom 437: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
438: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
439: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
440: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
441: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
442: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
443: Peter N. M. Hansteen
444: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
445: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
446: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
447: drivers for OpenBSD".
448: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
449: <p>
450:
1.459 henning 451: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
452: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
453: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
454: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
455: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
456: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
457: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
458: <p>
459:
1.457 wvdputte 460: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
461: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
462: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
463: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 464: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 465: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
466: BSD dinner. More details and
467: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 468: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 469: <p>
470:
471: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
472: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
473: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
474: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
475: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
476: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
477: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
478: <p>
1.455 grunk 479:
1.456 henning 480: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
481: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
482: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
483: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
484: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
485: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
486: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
487: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
488: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
489: <p>
490:
1.455 grunk 491: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
492: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
493: </strong>,
494: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
495: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
496: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
497: <p>
498: </ul>
499:
1.296 mcbride 500: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 501:
502: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 503:
1.445 martin 504: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
505: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
506: Berlin</a></strong>,
507: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
508: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
509: <p>
510:
1.585 aanriot 511: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 512: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
513: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
514: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 515: <p>
516:
1.435 matthieu 517: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
518: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
519: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
520: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
521: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 522: event.
1.444 grunk 523: The program included a
524: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 525: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
526: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 527: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
528: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 529: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 530: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 531: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 532: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 533: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 534: <p>
1.435 matthieu 535: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
536: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
537: <p>
538:
1.434 bernd 539: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
540: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
541: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
542: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
543: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
544: <p>
545:
1.441 niallo 546: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
547: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
548: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
549: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
550: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
551: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
552: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
553: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
554: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
555: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
556: scripts.
557: <p>
558:
1.424 mbalmer 559: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
560: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
561: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 562: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
563: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
564: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 565: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 566: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 567: talks, including
568: <ul>
569: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
570: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
571: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
572: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
573: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
574: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 575: <p>
576:
577: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
578: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
579: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 580: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 581: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
582: <p>
583:
1.418 djm 584: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
585: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
586: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
587: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
588: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
589: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
590: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 591: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
592: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
593: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 594: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
595: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
596: <p>
597:
1.415 aanriot 598: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
599: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
600: 2005</a></strong>,
601: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
602: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
603: help of Thierry Thomas.
604: <p>
605:
1.420 deraadt 606: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
607: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
608: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
609: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
610: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
611: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
612: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
613: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
614: registration was mandatory.<br>
615: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 616: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 617: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
618: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
619: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 620: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 621: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
622: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
623: mechanism.
624: <p>
625:
1.414 bernd 626: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
627: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
628: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
629: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
630: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
631: <p>
632:
633: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
634: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
635: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
636: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
637: <p>
638:
1.410 wvdputte 639: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 640: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 641: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 642: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 643: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 644: <p>
645:
646: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
647: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
648: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
649: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 650: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 651: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
652: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
653: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
654: installed on your computer.
655: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 656: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 657: <p>
658:
1.404 wvdputte 659: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
660: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 661: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 662: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
663: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 664: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 665: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
666: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
667: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
668: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
669: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
670: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
671: <p>
672:
673: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
674: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
675: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
676: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
677: <p>
678:
1.403 henning 679: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
680: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 681: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 682: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
683: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
684: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
685: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
686: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
687: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
688: <p>
689:
1.388 tom 690: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
691: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
692: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 693: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 694: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
695: <p>
696:
1.385 mickey 697: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 698: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 699: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 700: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
701: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 702: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
703: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 704: and an excellent
705: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
706: If you want to see what happened previously, check
707: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
708: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
709: <p>
710:
1.382 pedro 711: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 712: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 713: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 714: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 715: <p>
716:
1.378 aanriot 717: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
718: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 719: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 720: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
721: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
722: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
723: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 724: <p>
725:
1.375 grunk 726: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
727: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 728: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 729: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
730: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
731: <p>
732:
1.374 grunk 733: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
734: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 735: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 736: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
737: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
738: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
739: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
740: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
741: <p>
742:
1.371 deraadt 743: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
744: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 745: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 746: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
747: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
748: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
749: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
750: He demonstrated how companies can easily
751: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
752: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
753: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
754: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
755: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
756: <p>
757:
1.366 martin 758: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
759: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
760: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
761: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
762: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
763: CDs and shirts.
764: <p>
765:
1.365 mcbride 766: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
767: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
768: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
769: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
770: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
771: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
772: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
773: <br>
774: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
775: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
776: <p>
777:
1.362 reyk 778: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
779: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
780: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
781: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
782: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
783: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
784: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
785: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
786: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
787: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
788: <p>
789:
1.358 mcbride 790: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
791: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
792: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
793: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
794: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
795: <p>
796:
1.357 henning 797: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
798: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
799: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
800: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
801: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
802: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
803: <p>
804:
1.384 tom 805: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 806: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 807: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 808: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
809: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
810: packages work in front of about 30 people.
811: <p>
812:
1.353 henning 813: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
814: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 815: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 816: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
817: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
818: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
819: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 820: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 821: <p>
822:
1.352 henning 823: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
824: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 825: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 826: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
827: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
828: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
829: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
830: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
831: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
832: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
833: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
834: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
835: available if you couldn't make it there.
836: <p>
837:
1.589 aanriot 838:
839: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
840: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
841: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
842: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
843: <p>
844:
1.350 marius 845: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
846: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 847: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 848: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
849: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
850: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
851: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
852: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 853: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 854: <p>
855:
1.585 aanriot 856: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 857: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
858: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 859: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 860: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 861: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 862: <p>
863:
1.337 deraadt 864: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
865: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 866: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 867: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
868: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 869: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 870: source firewalls.
871: <p>
872:
1.317 henning 873: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
874: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
875: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 876: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 877: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 878: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 879: <p>
880:
1.312 deraadt 881: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
882: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
883: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 884: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
885: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 886: <p>
887:
1.319 saad 888: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
889: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
890: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
891: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
892: <p>
893:
1.310 mickey 894: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 895: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 896: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 897: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 898: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 899: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 900: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 901: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 902: <p>
1.312 deraadt 903:
1.308 deraadt 904: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
905: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
906: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
907: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 908: talks. Topics included
909: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 910: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
911: OpenBGPD, and pf.
912: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 913: <p>
914:
1.304 saad 915: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
916: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
917: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
918: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
919: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 920: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 921: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 922: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
923: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 924: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 925: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
926: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
927: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 928: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 929: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
930: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
931: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
932: <p>
1.301 saad 933: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
934: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
935: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
936: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
937: <p>
938: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
939: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
940: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
941: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
942: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
943: <p>
1.293 saad 944: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
945: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
946: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
947: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
948: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
949: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 950: french translation team.<br>
951: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
952: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
953: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
954: available.<br>
955: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 956: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
957: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
958: <p>
1.296 mcbride 959: </ul>
1.293 saad 960:
1.296 mcbride 961: <h3>2004</h3>
962:
963: <ul>
1.287 henning 964: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
965: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 966: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 967: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
968: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
969: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 970: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 971: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
972: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
973: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
974: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
975: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
976: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 977: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 978: driver.
979: <p>
1.248 deraadt 980:
1.286 kevlo 981: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 982: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 983: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
984: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
985: <p>
986:
1.285 deraadt 987: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
988: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
989: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
990: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
991: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
992: <p>
993:
1.283 saad 994: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
995: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
996: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
997: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
998: meeting of the
999: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1000: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1001: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1002: <p>
1003:
1.282 henning 1004: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1005: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1006: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1007: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1008: two days, on bgpd
1009: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1010: ntpd
1011: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1012: and signal handlers
1013: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1014: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1015: <p>
1016:
1.275 deraadt 1017: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1018: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1019: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1020: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1021: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1022: Room B-02 of the
1023: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1024: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1025: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1026: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1027: The talk was also given the following day at the
1028: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1029: <p>
1030:
1.271 henning 1031: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1032: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1033: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1034: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1035: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1036: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1037: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1038: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1039: <p>
1040:
1041: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1042: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1043: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1044: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1045: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1046: <p>
1047:
1.276 deraadt 1048: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1049: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1050: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1051: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1052: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1053: <p>
1054:
1055: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1056: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1057: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1058: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1059: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1060: <p>
1061:
1062: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1063: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1064: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1065: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1066: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1067: <p>
1068:
1.268 krw 1069: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1070: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1071: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1072: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1073: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1074: <p>
1075:
1.375 grunk 1076: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1077: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1078: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1079: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1080: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1081: <p>
1082:
1083: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1084: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1085: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1086: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1087: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.265 wvdputte 1090: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1091: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1092: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1093: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1094: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1095: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1096: event."
1097: <br>
1098: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1099: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1100: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1101: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1102: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1103: <br>
1104: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1105: <p>
1106:
1.262 henning 1107: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1108: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1109: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1110: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1111: Henning's slides from his talks about
1112: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1113: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1114: are available.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.261 deraadt 1117: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1118: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1119: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1120: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1121: newly extended version of the
1122: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1123: For more information, see this
1124: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1125: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1126: <p>
1127:
1128:
1.257 saad 1129: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1130: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1131: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1132: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1133: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1134: <p>
1135:
1136: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1137: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1138: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1139: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1140: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1141: <p>
1142:
1.254 xsa 1143: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1144: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1145: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1146: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1147: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1148: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1149: a basic talk about pf.
1150: <p>
1151:
1.248 deraadt 1152: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1153: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1154: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1155: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1156: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1157: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1158: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1159: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1160: <p>
1161:
1.247 canacar 1162: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1163: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1164: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1165: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1166: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1167: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1168: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1169: projects were discussed.<br>
1170: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1171: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1172: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1173: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1174: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1175: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1176: <p>
1177:
1.242 henning 1178: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1179: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1180: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1181: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1182: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1183: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1184: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1185: and systrace
1.263 saad 1186: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1187: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1188: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1189: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1190: <p>
1191:
1.240 espie 1192: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1193: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1194: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1195: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1196: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1197: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1198: <p>
1199:
1200: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1201: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1202: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1203: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1204: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1205: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1206: <p>
1207: </ul>
1208:
1.188 henning 1209: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1210:
1211: <ul>
1.232 jose 1212: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1213: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1214: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1215: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1216: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1217: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1218: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1219: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1220: <p>
1.232 jose 1221:
1.228 jose 1222: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1223: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1224: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1225: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1226: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1227: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1228: with OpenBSD PF.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1232: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1233: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1234: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1235: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1236: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1237: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1238: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1239: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1240: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1241: slides in PDF format </a>
1242: (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 1243: <p>
1244:
1.227 jose 1245: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1246: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1247: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1248: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1249: <p>
1250:
1251: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1252: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1253: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1254: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1255: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1256: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1257: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1258: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1259: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1260: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1261: in Internet worm defenses.
1262: <p>
1263:
1.224 miod 1264: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1265: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1266: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1267: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1268: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1269: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1270: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1271: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1272: OpenBSD.
1273: <p>
1274:
1275: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1276: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1277: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1278: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1279: <p>
1280:
1281: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1282: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1283: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1284: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1285: <p>
1286:
1.219 jose 1287: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1288: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1289: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1290: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1291: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1292: <p>
1293:
1.218 jose 1294: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1295: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1296: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1297: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1298: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1299: <p>
1300:
1.214 henning 1301: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1302: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1303: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1304: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.213 jose 1307: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1308: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1309: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1310: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1311: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1312: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1313: <p>
1314:
1.211 jose 1315: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1316: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1317: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1318: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1319: <p>
1320:
1321: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1322: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1323: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1324: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1325: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1326: <p>
1327:
1.209 wvdputte 1328: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1329: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1330: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1331: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1332: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1333:
1.202 jason 1334: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1335: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1336: Conference</a></strong>,
1337: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1338: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1339: <ul>
1.216 jose 1340: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1341: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1342: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1343: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1344: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1345: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1346: </ul>
1347: <p>
1348:
1.216 jose 1349: <li><strong>
1350: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1351: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1352: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1353: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1354: <p>
1355:
1.216 jose 1356: <li><strong>
1357: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1358: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1359: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1360: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1361: <p>
1362:
1.216 jose 1363: <li><strong>
1364: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1365: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1366: 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 1367: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1368: <p>
1369:
1.216 jose 1370: <li><strong>
1371: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1372: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1373: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1374: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1375: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1376: user groups.
1377: <p>
1378:
1.236 jose 1379: <li><strong>
1380: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1381: Group</a></strong>,
1382: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1383: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1384: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1385: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1386: <p>
1387:
1.216 jose 1388: <li><strong>
1389: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1390: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1391: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1392: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1393: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1394: <p>
1395:
1.216 jose 1396: <li><strong>
1397: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1398: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1399: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1400: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1401: <p>
1.236 jose 1402: </ul>
1.185 miod 1403:
1.161 millert 1404: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1405:
1406: <ul>
1407: <li><strong>
1408: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1409: Congress</a></strong>,
1410: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1411: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1412: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1413: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1414: <p>
1.177 jason 1415:
1.216 jose 1416: <li><strong>
1417: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1418: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1419: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1420: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1421: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1422: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1423: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1424: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1425: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1426: <p>
1.178 pb 1427:
1.216 jose 1428: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1429: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1430: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1431: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1432: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1433: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1434: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1435: <p>
1436:
1.216 jose 1437: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1438: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1439: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1440: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1441: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1442: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1443: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1447: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1448: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1449: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1450: Niels Provos presented his
1451: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1452: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1453: <p>
1.172 miod 1454:
1.216 jose 1455: <li><strong>
1456: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1457: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1458: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1459: <p>
1460:
1.216 jose 1461: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1462: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1463: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1464: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1465: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1466: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1467: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1468: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1469: <p>
1.168 miod 1470:
1.216 jose 1471: <li><strong>
1472: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1473: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1474: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1475: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1476: are available.
1.161 millert 1477: <p>
1478:
1.216 jose 1479: <li><strong>
1480: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1481: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1482: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1483: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1484: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1485: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1486: <p>
1487:
1.216 jose 1488: <li><strong>
1489: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1490: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1491: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1492: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1493: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1494: <p>
1.236 jose 1495: </ul>
1.164 millert 1496:
1.152 jakob 1497: <h3>2001</h3>
1498:
1.236 jose 1499: <ul>
1.216 jose 1500: <li><strong>
1501: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1502: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1503: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1504: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1505: <p>
1506:
1.216 jose 1507: <li><strong>
1508: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1509: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1510: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1511: <p>
1512:
1.158 deraadt 1513: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1514: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1515: 2001</a></strong>,
1516: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1517: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1518: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1519: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1520: <p>
1521:
1.216 jose 1522: <li><strong>
1523: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1524: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1525: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1526: <p>
1527:
1.201 deraadt 1528: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1529: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1530: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1531: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1532:
1.150 wvdputte 1533: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1534: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1535: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1536: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1537: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1538: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1539: <p>
1.137 aaron 1540:
1541: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1542: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1543: Conference</a></strong>,
1544: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1545: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1546: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1547: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1548: <p>
1549:
1550: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1551: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1552: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1553: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1554: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1555: <p>
1556:
1557: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1558: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1559: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1560: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1561: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1562: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1563: <p>
1564:
1565: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1566: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1567: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1568: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1569: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1570: <p>
1571:
1572: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1573: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1574: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1575: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1576: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1577: security community.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1581: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1582: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1583: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1584: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1585: <p>
1586:
1587: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1588: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1589: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1590: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1591: <p>
1.236 jose 1592: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1593:
1.132 louis 1594: <h3>2000</h3>
1595:
1.236 jose 1596: <ul>
1.132 louis 1597: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1598: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1599: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1600: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1601: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1602: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1603: <p>
1604:
1605: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1606: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1607: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1608: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1609: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1610: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1611: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1612: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1613: <p>
1614:
1615: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1616: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1617: 2000</a></strong>,
1618: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1619: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1620: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1621: <p>
1.4 millert 1622:
1.132 louis 1623: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1624: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1625: Summit</a></strong>,
1626: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1627: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1628: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1629: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1630:
1631: <ul>
1.236 jose 1632: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1633: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1634: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1635: </ul>
1.4 millert 1636: <p>
1.132 louis 1637:
1.7 deraadt 1638: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1639: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1640: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1641: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1642: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1643: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1644: mind (drinks afterwards).
1645: <p>
1646:
1.216 jose 1647: <li><strong>
1648: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1649: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1650: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1651: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1652: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1653:
1.132 louis 1654: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1655: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1656: Revolution</a></strong>,
1657: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1658: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1659: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1660: <p>
1661:
1.132 louis 1662: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1663: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1664: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1665: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1666: <ul>
1.236 jose 1667: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1668: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1669: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1670: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1671: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1672: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1673: <p>
1.132 louis 1674:
1.10 provos 1675: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1676: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1677: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1678: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1679: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1680: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1681: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1682: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1683: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1684: <br>
1685: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1686: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1687: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1688:
1.132 louis 1689: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1690: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1691: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1692: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1693: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1694: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1695: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1696: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1697: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1698: and spoke about
1699: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1700: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1701: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1702: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1703: <p>
1.132 louis 1704:
1.6 deraadt 1705: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1706: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1707: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1708: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1709: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1710: <br>
1711: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1712: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1713: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1714: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1715:
1.216 jose 1716: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1717: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1718: Conference.</a></strong>,
1719: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1720: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1721: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1722: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1723: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1724: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1725: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1726: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1727: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1728: <ul>
1729:
1730: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1731: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1732: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1733: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1734: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1735:
1736: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1737: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1738: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1739: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1740: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1741:
1.132 louis 1742: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1743: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1744: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1745: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1746: <p>
1747:
1.132 louis 1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1750: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1751: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1752: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1753: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1754: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1755: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1756:
1.132 louis 1757: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1758: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1759: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1760: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1761: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1762: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1763: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1764: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1765: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1766:
1.17 deraadt 1767: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1768: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1769: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1770: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1771: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1772: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1773: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1774: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1775: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1776:
1.23 niklas 1777: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1778: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1779: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1780: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1781: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1782: efforts.
1783: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1784: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1785: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1786: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1787: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1788: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1789:
1.132 louis 1790: <li><strong>
1791: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1792: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1793: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1794: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1795: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1796: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1797: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1798: <p>
1.23 niklas 1799:
1.31 deraadt 1800: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1801: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1802: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1803: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1804: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1805: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1806: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1807: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1808: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1809: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1810:
1.201 deraadt 1811: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1812: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1813: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1814: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1815: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1816: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1817: <p>
1.236 jose 1818: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1819:
1.132 louis 1820: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1821:
1.236 jose 1822: <ul>
1.216 jose 1823: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1824: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1825: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1826: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1827: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1828: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1829: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1830: <p>
1831:
1.216 jose 1832: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1833: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1834: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1835: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1836: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1837: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1838: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1839: There were many other OpenBSD
1840: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1841: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1842:
1843: <ul>
1844: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1845: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1846: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1847: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1848: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1849: </ul>
1850: <p>
1851:
1852: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1853: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1854: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1855: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1856: <p>
1857:
1858: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1859: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1860: Software '99</a></strong>,
1861: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1862: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1863: <a
1.375 grunk 1864: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1865: <p>
1866:
1867: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1868: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1869: 1999</a></strong>,
1870: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1871: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1872: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1873: <p>
1874:
1.236 jose 1875: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1876: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1877: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1878: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1879: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1880: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1881: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1882: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1883: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1884: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1885: conference in Stockholm.
1886: <p>
1887:
1888: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1889: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1890: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1891: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1892: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1893: coordinated.
1894: <p>
1895:
1896: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1897: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1898: Security</a></strong>,
1899: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1900: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1901: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1902: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1903: significant security roles.
1904: <p>
1905:
1906: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1907: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1908: meeting</a></strong>,
1909: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1910: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1911: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1912: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1913: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1914: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1915: <p>
1.45 jason 1916:
1.132 louis 1917: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1918: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1919: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1920: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1921: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1922: <p>
1.132 louis 1923:
1.236 jose 1924: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1925: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1926: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1927: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1928: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1929: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1930: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1931: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1932: June.)
1.132 louis 1933: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1934: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1935: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1936:
1.375 grunk 1937: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1938: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1939: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1940: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1941: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1942: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1943: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1944: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1945: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1946: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1947: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1948: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1949: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1950: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1951: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1952: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1953: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1954: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1955: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1956: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1957: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1958: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1959: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1960: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1961: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1962: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1963: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1964: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1965:
1.51 deraadt 1966: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1967: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1968: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1969: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1970: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1971: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1972: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1973: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1974: <p>
1975:
1.53 jakob 1976: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1977: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1978: meeting</a></strong>,
1979: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1980: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1981: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1982: <p>
1983:
1.132 louis 1984: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1986: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1987: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1988: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1989: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1990: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1991: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1992: <p>
1.236 jose 1993: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1994:
1.132 louis 1995: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1996:
1.236 jose 1997: <ul>
1.132 louis 1998: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1999: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2000: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2001: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2002: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2003: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2004: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2005: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2006: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2007: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2008: <p>
2009:
1.236 jose 2010: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2011: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2012: Conference</a></strong>,
2013: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2014: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2015: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2016: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2017: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2018: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2019: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2020: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2021: <br>
2022: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2023: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2024: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2025: <p>
2026:
1.73 deraadt 2027: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2028: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2029: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2030: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2031: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2032: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2033: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2034: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2035: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2036:
1.236 jose 2037: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2038: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2039: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2040: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2041: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2042: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2043: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2044: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2045:
1.80 deraadt 2046: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2047: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2048: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2049: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2050: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2051: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2052: <p>
2053:
1.93 louis 2054: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2055: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2056: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2057: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2058: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2059: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2060: <p>
2061:
1.216 jose 2062: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2063: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2064: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2065: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2066: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2067: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2068: <p>
2069:
1.236 jose 2070: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2071: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2072: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2073: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2074: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2075: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2076: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2077: <br>
2078: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2079: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2080: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2081: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2082: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2083:
1.236 jose 2084: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2085: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2086: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2087: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2088: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2089: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2090: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2091: <p>
2092:
1.236 jose 2093: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2094: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2095: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2096: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2097: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2098: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2099: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2100: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2101: <br>
2102: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2103: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2104: <p>
2105:
1.105 wvdputte 2106: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2107: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2108: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2109: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2110: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2111: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2112: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2113: <br>
1.132 louis 2114: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2115: <p>
1.236 jose 2116: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2117:
1.132 louis 2118: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2119:
1.236 jose 2120: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2121: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2122: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2123: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2124: Niels held a
2125: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2126: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2127: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2128: <p>
1.132 louis 2129:
1.236 jose 2130: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2131: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2132: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2133: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2134: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2135: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2136:
1.236 jose 2137: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2138: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2139: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2140: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2141: <br>
2142: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2143: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2144: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2145: <p>
2146:
1.125 deraadt 2147: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2148: <a
2149: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2150: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2151: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2152: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2153: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2154:
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2158: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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