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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>
1.596 ! dlg 99: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
! 100: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
! 101: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 102: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
103: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 104: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 105: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
106: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 107: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 108: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 109: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
110: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
111: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 112: stuff.
113: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 114:
1.575 reyk 115: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
116: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
117: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
118: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
119: as a reference project for secure software.
120: <p>
121:
1.583 henning 122: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
123: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
124: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
125: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
126: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
127: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
128: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
129: <p>
130:
1.565 krw 131: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
132: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
133: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
134: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 135: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
136: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 137: <p>
138:
1.559 jason 139: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
140: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
141: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
142: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
143: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 144: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 145: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 146: <ul>
147: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 148: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
149: <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>]
150: <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>]
151: <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 152: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
153: </ul>
154: <p>
155:
1.556 fgsch 156: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
157: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
158: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
160: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 161: <p>
162:
1.589 aanriot 163: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
164: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
165: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
166: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
167: vendors to open up their documentation.
168: <p>
169:
1.553 grunk 170: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
171: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
172: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
173: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
174: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
175: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
176: and some other volunteers.
177: <p>
178:
1.550 henning 179: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
180: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
181: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
182: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
183: <p>
184:
1.547 aanriot 185: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
186: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
187: 2006</a></strong>,
188: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
189: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
190: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
191: <p>
192:
1.546 mcbride 193: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
194: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
195: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
196: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
197: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
198: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
199: and
200: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
201: <p>
202:
1.532 wvdputte 203: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
204: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
205: </a></strong>,
206: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
207: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
208: <p>
209:
1.528 wvdputte 210: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
211: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
212: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
213: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
214: <p>
215:
1.525 wvdputte 216: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
217: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
218: </strong>,
219: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
220: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
221: <p>
222:
1.521 fkr 223: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
224: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
225: </strong>,
226: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
227: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
228: <p>
229:
1.518 tedu 230: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
231: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
232: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
233: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
234: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
235: <p>
236:
237: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
238: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
239: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 240: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
241: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 242: <p>
1.475 deraadt 243:
1.510 wvdputte 244: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
245: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
246: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
247: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
248: Serge Basterot.
249: <p>
250:
1.508 wvdputte 251: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
252: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
253: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
254: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 255: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 256: Tim Kornau.
257: <p>
258:
1.507 mbalmer 259: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
260: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
261: </strong>,
262: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
263: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
264: <p>
265:
1.506 deraadt 266: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 267: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 268: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
269: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
270: gave a talk
271: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
272: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
273: and live demonstration on redundant failover
274: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
275: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
276: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
277: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
278: <p>
279:
1.502 mbalmer 280: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
281: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
282: </strong>
283: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
284: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 285: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 286: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
287: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
288: <p>
289:
1.500 deraadt 290: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
291: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
292: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 293: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
294: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 295: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
296: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
297: <p>
298:
1.589 aanriot 299: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
300: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
301: </strong>,
302: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
303: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
304: <p>
305:
1.585 aanriot 306: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 307: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
308: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 309: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 310: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 311: <p>
312:
1.491 bernd 313: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
314: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
315: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
316: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
317: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
318: PF tutorial</a>.
319: <p>
320:
1.490 reyk 321: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
322: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
323: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
324: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
325: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
326: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
327: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
328: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
329: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
330: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
331: <p>
332:
1.489 bernd 333: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
334: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
335: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
336: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
337: the overall system and its great features.
338: <p>
339:
1.592 claudio 340: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 341: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
342: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
343: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
344: <p>
345:
1.592 claudio 346: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 347: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
348: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
349: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
350: <ul>
351: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
352: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 353: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 354: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
355: distributions...
356: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
357: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 358: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 359: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 360: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
361: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
362: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
363: how full redundancy can be achieved.
364: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 365: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
366: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
367: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
368: </ul>
369: <br>
370: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 371: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 372: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
373: <br>
374: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
375: usual suspects.
376: <p>
377:
1.486 mickey 378: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
379: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
380: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
381: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 382: (<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 383: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
384: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
385: <p>
386:
1.484 mbalmer 387: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
388: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
389: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
390: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
391: talk. There is a
392: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
393: <p>
394:
1.478 mbalmer 395: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
396: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
397: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
398: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
399: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
400: well received.
401: <br>
402: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
403: and we could draw a lot of attention.
404: <p>
405:
1.479 deraadt 406: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
407: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
408: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
409: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 410: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
411: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
412: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 413: only).
414: <p>
415:
1.475 deraadt 416: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
417: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
418: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
419: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
420: Jason Dixon presented
421: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
422: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
423: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
424: <br>
425: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
426: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
427: <p>
428:
429: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
430: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
431: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
432: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
433: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
434: <br>
435: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
436: on sale.
437: <p>
438:
1.469 tom 439: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
440: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
441: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
442: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
443: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
444: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
445: Peter N. M. Hansteen
446: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
447: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
448: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
449: drivers for OpenBSD".
450: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
451: <p>
452:
1.459 henning 453: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
454: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
455: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
456: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
457: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
458: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
459: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
460: <p>
461:
1.457 wvdputte 462: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
463: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
464: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
465: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 466: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 467: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
468: BSD dinner. More details and
469: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 470: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 471: <p>
472:
473: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
474: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
475: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
476: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
477: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
478: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
479: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
480: <p>
1.455 grunk 481:
1.456 henning 482: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
483: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
484: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
485: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
486: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
487: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
488: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
489: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
490: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
491: <p>
492:
1.455 grunk 493: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
494: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
495: </strong>,
496: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
497: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
498: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
499: <p>
500: </ul>
501:
1.296 mcbride 502: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 503:
504: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 505:
1.445 martin 506: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
507: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
508: Berlin</a></strong>,
509: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
510: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
511: <p>
512:
1.585 aanriot 513: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 514: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
515: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
516: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 517: <p>
518:
1.435 matthieu 519: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
520: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
521: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
522: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
523: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 524: event.
1.444 grunk 525: The program included a
526: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 527: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
528: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 529: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
530: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 531: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 532: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 533: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 534: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 535: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 536: <p>
1.435 matthieu 537: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
538: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
539: <p>
540:
1.434 bernd 541: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
542: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
543: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
544: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
545: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
546: <p>
547:
1.441 niallo 548: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
549: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
550: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
551: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
552: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
553: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
554: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
555: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
556: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
557: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
558: scripts.
559: <p>
560:
1.424 mbalmer 561: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
562: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
563: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 564: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
565: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
566: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 567: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 568: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 569: talks, including
570: <ul>
571: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
572: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
573: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
574: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
575: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
576: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 577: <p>
578:
579: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
580: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
581: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 582: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 583: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
584: <p>
585:
1.418 djm 586: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
587: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
588: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
589: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
590: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
591: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
592: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 593: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
594: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
595: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 596: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
597: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
598: <p>
599:
1.415 aanriot 600: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
601: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
602: 2005</a></strong>,
603: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
604: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
605: help of Thierry Thomas.
606: <p>
607:
1.420 deraadt 608: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
609: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
610: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
611: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
612: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
613: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
614: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
615: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
616: registration was mandatory.<br>
617: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 618: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 619: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
620: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
621: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 622: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 623: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
624: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
625: mechanism.
626: <p>
627:
1.414 bernd 628: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
629: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
630: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
631: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
632: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
633: <p>
634:
635: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
636: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
637: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
638: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
639: <p>
640:
1.410 wvdputte 641: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 642: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 643: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 644: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 645: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 646: <p>
647:
648: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
649: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
650: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
651: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 652: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 653: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
654: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
655: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
656: installed on your computer.
657: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 658: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 659: <p>
660:
1.404 wvdputte 661: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
662: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 663: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 664: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
665: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 666: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 667: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
668: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
669: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
670: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
671: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
672: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
673: <p>
674:
675: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
676: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
677: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
678: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
679: <p>
680:
1.403 henning 681: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
682: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 683: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 684: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
685: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
686: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
687: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
688: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
689: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
690: <p>
691:
1.388 tom 692: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
693: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
694: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 695: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 696: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
697: <p>
698:
1.385 mickey 699: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 700: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 701: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 702: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
703: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 704: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
705: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 706: and an excellent
707: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
708: If you want to see what happened previously, check
709: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
710: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
711: <p>
712:
1.382 pedro 713: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 714: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 715: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 716: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 717: <p>
718:
1.378 aanriot 719: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
720: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 721: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 722: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
723: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
724: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
725: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 726: <p>
727:
1.375 grunk 728: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
729: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 730: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 731: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
732: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
733: <p>
734:
1.374 grunk 735: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
736: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 737: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 738: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
739: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
740: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
741: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
742: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
743: <p>
744:
1.371 deraadt 745: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
746: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 747: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 748: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
749: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
750: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
751: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
752: He demonstrated how companies can easily
753: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
754: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
755: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
756: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
757: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
758: <p>
759:
1.366 martin 760: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
761: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
762: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
763: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
764: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
765: CDs and shirts.
766: <p>
767:
1.365 mcbride 768: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
769: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
770: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
771: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
772: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
773: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
774: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
775: <br>
776: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
777: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
778: <p>
779:
1.362 reyk 780: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
781: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
782: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
783: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
784: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
785: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
786: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
787: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
788: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
789: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
790: <p>
791:
1.358 mcbride 792: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
793: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
794: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
795: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
796: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
797: <p>
798:
1.357 henning 799: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
800: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
801: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
802: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
803: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
804: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
805: <p>
806:
1.384 tom 807: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 808: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 809: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 810: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
811: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
812: packages work in front of about 30 people.
813: <p>
814:
1.353 henning 815: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
816: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 817: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 818: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
819: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
820: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
821: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 822: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 823: <p>
824:
1.352 henning 825: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
826: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 827: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 828: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
829: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
830: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
831: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
832: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
833: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
834: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
835: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
836: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
837: available if you couldn't make it there.
838: <p>
839:
1.589 aanriot 840:
841: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
842: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
843: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
844: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
845: <p>
846:
1.350 marius 847: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
848: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 849: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 850: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
851: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
852: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
853: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
854: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 855: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 856: <p>
857:
1.585 aanriot 858: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 859: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
860: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 861: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 862: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 863: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 864: <p>
865:
1.337 deraadt 866: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
867: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 868: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 869: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
870: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 871: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 872: source firewalls.
873: <p>
874:
1.317 henning 875: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
876: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
877: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 878: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 879: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 880: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 881: <p>
882:
1.312 deraadt 883: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
884: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
885: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 886: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
887: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 888: <p>
889:
1.319 saad 890: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
891: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
892: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
893: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
894: <p>
895:
1.310 mickey 896: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 897: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 898: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 899: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 900: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 901: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 902: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 903: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 904: <p>
1.312 deraadt 905:
1.308 deraadt 906: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
907: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
908: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
909: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 910: talks. Topics included
911: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 912: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
913: OpenBGPD, and pf.
914: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 915: <p>
916:
1.304 saad 917: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
918: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
919: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
920: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
921: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 922: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 923: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 924: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
925: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 926: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 927: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
928: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
929: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 930: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 931: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
932: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
933: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
934: <p>
1.301 saad 935: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
936: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
937: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
938: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
939: <p>
940: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
941: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
942: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
943: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
944: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
945: <p>
1.293 saad 946: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
947: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
948: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
949: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
950: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
951: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 952: french translation team.<br>
953: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
954: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
955: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
956: available.<br>
957: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 958: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
959: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
960: <p>
1.296 mcbride 961: </ul>
1.293 saad 962:
1.296 mcbride 963: <h3>2004</h3>
964:
965: <ul>
1.287 henning 966: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
967: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 968: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 969: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
970: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
971: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 972: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 973: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
974: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
975: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
976: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
977: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
978: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 979: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 980: driver.
981: <p>
1.248 deraadt 982:
1.286 kevlo 983: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 984: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 985: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
986: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
987: <p>
988:
1.285 deraadt 989: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
990: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
991: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
992: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
993: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
994: <p>
995:
1.283 saad 996: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
997: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
998: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
999: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1000: meeting of the
1001: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1002: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1003: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1004: <p>
1005:
1.282 henning 1006: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1007: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1008: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1009: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1010: two days, on bgpd
1011: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1012: ntpd
1013: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1014: and signal handlers
1015: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1016: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.275 deraadt 1019: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1020: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1021: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1022: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1023: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1024: Room B-02 of the
1025: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1026: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1027: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1028: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1029: The talk was also given the following day at the
1030: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1031: <p>
1032:
1.271 henning 1033: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1034: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1035: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1036: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1037: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1038: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1039: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1040: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1041: <p>
1042:
1043: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1044: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1045: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1046: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1047: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1048: <p>
1049:
1.276 deraadt 1050: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1051: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1052: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1053: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1054: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1058: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1059: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1060: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1061: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1062: <p>
1063:
1064: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1065: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1066: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1067: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1068: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1069: <p>
1070:
1.268 krw 1071: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1072: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1073: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1074: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1075: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.375 grunk 1078: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1079: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1080: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1081: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1082: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1083: <p>
1084:
1085: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1086: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1087: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1088: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1089: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.265 wvdputte 1092: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1093: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1094: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1095: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1096: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1097: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1098: event."
1099: <br>
1100: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1101: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1102: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1103: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1104: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1105: <br>
1106: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1107: <p>
1108:
1.262 henning 1109: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1110: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1111: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1112: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1113: Henning's slides from his talks about
1114: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1115: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1116: are available.
1117: <p>
1118:
1.261 deraadt 1119: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1120: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1121: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1122: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1123: newly extended version of the
1124: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1125: For more information, see this
1126: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1127: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1128: <p>
1129:
1130:
1.257 saad 1131: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1132: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1133: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1134: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1135: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1136: <p>
1137:
1138: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1139: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1140: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1141: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1142: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1143: <p>
1144:
1.254 xsa 1145: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1146: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1147: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1148: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1149: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1150: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1151: a basic talk about pf.
1152: <p>
1153:
1.248 deraadt 1154: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1155: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1156: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1157: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1158: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1159: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1160: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1161: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1162: <p>
1163:
1.247 canacar 1164: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1165: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1166: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1167: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1168: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1169: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1170: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1171: projects were discussed.<br>
1172: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1173: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1174: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1175: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1176: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1177: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1178: <p>
1179:
1.242 henning 1180: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1181: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1182: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1183: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1184: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1185: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1186: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1187: and systrace
1.263 saad 1188: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1189: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1190: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1191: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1192: <p>
1193:
1.240 espie 1194: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1195: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1196: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1197: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1198: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1199: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1200: <p>
1201:
1202: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1203: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1204: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1205: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1206: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1207: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1208: <p>
1209: </ul>
1210:
1.188 henning 1211: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1212:
1213: <ul>
1.232 jose 1214: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1215: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1216: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1217: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1218: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1219: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1220: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1221: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1222: <p>
1.232 jose 1223:
1.228 jose 1224: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1225: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1226: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1227: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1228: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1229: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1230: with OpenBSD PF.
1231: <p>
1232:
1233: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1234: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1235: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1236: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1237: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1238: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1239: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1240: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1241: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1242: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1243: slides in PDF format </a>
1244: (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 1245: <p>
1246:
1.227 jose 1247: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1249: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1250: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1251: <p>
1252:
1253: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1254: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1255: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1256: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1257: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1258: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1259: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1260: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1261: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1262: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1263: in Internet worm defenses.
1264: <p>
1265:
1.224 miod 1266: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1267: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1268: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1269: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1270: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1271: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1272: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1273: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1274: OpenBSD.
1275: <p>
1276:
1277: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1278: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1279: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1280: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1281: <p>
1282:
1283: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1284: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1285: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1286: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1287: <p>
1288:
1.219 jose 1289: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1290: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1291: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1292: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1293: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1294: <p>
1295:
1.218 jose 1296: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1297: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1298: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1299: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1300: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1301: <p>
1302:
1.214 henning 1303: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1304: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1305: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1306: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1307: <p>
1308:
1.213 jose 1309: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1310: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1311: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1312: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1313: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1314: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1315: <p>
1316:
1.211 jose 1317: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1318: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1319: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1320: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1321: <p>
1322:
1323: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1324: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1325: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1326: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1327: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1328: <p>
1329:
1.209 wvdputte 1330: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1331: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1332: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1333: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1334: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1335:
1.202 jason 1336: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1337: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1338: Conference</a></strong>,
1339: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1340: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1341: <ul>
1.216 jose 1342: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1343: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1344: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1345: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1346: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1347: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1348: </ul>
1349: <p>
1350:
1.216 jose 1351: <li><strong>
1352: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1353: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1354: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1355: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1356: <p>
1357:
1.216 jose 1358: <li><strong>
1359: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1360: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1361: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1362: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1363: <p>
1364:
1.216 jose 1365: <li><strong>
1366: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1367: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1368: 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 1369: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1370: <p>
1371:
1.216 jose 1372: <li><strong>
1373: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1374: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1375: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1376: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1377: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1378: user groups.
1379: <p>
1380:
1.236 jose 1381: <li><strong>
1382: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1383: Group</a></strong>,
1384: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1385: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1386: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1387: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1388: <p>
1389:
1.216 jose 1390: <li><strong>
1391: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1392: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1393: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1394: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1395: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1396: <p>
1397:
1.216 jose 1398: <li><strong>
1399: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1400: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1401: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1402: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1403: <p>
1.236 jose 1404: </ul>
1.185 miod 1405:
1.161 millert 1406: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1407:
1408: <ul>
1409: <li><strong>
1410: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1411: Congress</a></strong>,
1412: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1413: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1414: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1415: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1416: <p>
1.177 jason 1417:
1.216 jose 1418: <li><strong>
1419: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1420: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1421: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1422: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1423: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1424: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1425: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1426: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1427: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1428: <p>
1.178 pb 1429:
1.216 jose 1430: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1431: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1432: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1433: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1434: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1435: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1436: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1437: <p>
1438:
1.216 jose 1439: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1440: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1441: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1442: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1443: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1444: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1445: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1446: <p>
1447:
1448: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1449: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1450: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1451: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1452: Niels Provos presented his
1453: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1454: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1455: <p>
1.172 miod 1456:
1.216 jose 1457: <li><strong>
1458: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1459: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1460: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1461: <p>
1462:
1.216 jose 1463: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1464: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1465: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1466: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1467: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1468: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1469: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1470: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1471: <p>
1.168 miod 1472:
1.216 jose 1473: <li><strong>
1474: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1475: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1476: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1477: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1478: are available.
1.161 millert 1479: <p>
1480:
1.216 jose 1481: <li><strong>
1482: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1483: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1484: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1485: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1486: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1487: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1488: <p>
1489:
1.216 jose 1490: <li><strong>
1491: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1492: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1493: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1494: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1495: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1496: <p>
1.236 jose 1497: </ul>
1.164 millert 1498:
1.152 jakob 1499: <h3>2001</h3>
1500:
1.236 jose 1501: <ul>
1.216 jose 1502: <li><strong>
1503: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1504: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1505: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1506: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1507: <p>
1508:
1.216 jose 1509: <li><strong>
1510: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1511: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1512: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1513: <p>
1514:
1.158 deraadt 1515: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1516: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1517: 2001</a></strong>,
1518: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1519: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1520: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1521: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1522: <p>
1523:
1.216 jose 1524: <li><strong>
1525: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1526: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1527: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1528: <p>
1529:
1.201 deraadt 1530: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1531: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1532: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1533: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1534:
1.150 wvdputte 1535: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1536: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1537: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1538: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1539: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1540: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1541: <p>
1.137 aaron 1542:
1543: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1544: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1545: Conference</a></strong>,
1546: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1547: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1548: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1549: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1550: <p>
1551:
1552: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1553: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1554: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1555: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1556: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1557: <p>
1558:
1559: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1560: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1561: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1562: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1563: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1564: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1568: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1569: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1570: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1571: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1572: <p>
1573:
1574: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1575: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1576: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1577: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1578: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1579: security community.
1580: <p>
1581:
1582: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1583: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1584: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1585: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1586: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1587: <p>
1588:
1589: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1590: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1591: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1592: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1593: <p>
1.236 jose 1594: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1595:
1.132 louis 1596: <h3>2000</h3>
1597:
1.236 jose 1598: <ul>
1.132 louis 1599: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1600: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1601: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1602: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1603: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1604: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1605: <p>
1606:
1607: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1608: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1609: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1610: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1611: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1612: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1613: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1614: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1615: <p>
1616:
1617: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1618: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1619: 2000</a></strong>,
1620: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1621: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1622: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1623: <p>
1.4 millert 1624:
1.132 louis 1625: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1626: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1627: Summit</a></strong>,
1628: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1629: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1630: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1631: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1632:
1633: <ul>
1.236 jose 1634: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1635: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1636: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1637: </ul>
1.4 millert 1638: <p>
1.132 louis 1639:
1.7 deraadt 1640: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1641: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1642: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1643: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1644: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1645: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1646: mind (drinks afterwards).
1647: <p>
1648:
1.216 jose 1649: <li><strong>
1650: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1651: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1652: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1653: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1654: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1655:
1.132 louis 1656: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1657: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1658: Revolution</a></strong>,
1659: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1660: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1661: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1662: <p>
1663:
1.132 louis 1664: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1665: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1666: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1667: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1668: <ul>
1.236 jose 1669: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1670: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1671: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1672: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1673: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1674: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1675: <p>
1.132 louis 1676:
1.10 provos 1677: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1678: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1679: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1680: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1681: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1682: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1683: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1684: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1685: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1686: <br>
1687: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1688: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1689: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1690:
1.132 louis 1691: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1692: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1693: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1694: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1695: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1696: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1697: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1698: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1699: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1700: and spoke about
1701: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1702: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1703: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1704: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1705: <p>
1.132 louis 1706:
1.6 deraadt 1707: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1708: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1709: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1710: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1711: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1712: <br>
1713: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1714: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1715: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1716: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1717:
1.216 jose 1718: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1719: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1720: Conference.</a></strong>,
1721: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1722: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1723: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1724: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1725: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1726: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1727: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1728: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1729: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1730: <ul>
1731:
1732: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1733: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1734: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1735: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1736: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1737:
1738: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1739: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1740: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1741: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1742: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1743:
1.132 louis 1744: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1745: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1746: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1747: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1748: <p>
1749:
1.132 louis 1750: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1751: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1752: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1753: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1754: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1755: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1756: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1757: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1758:
1.132 louis 1759: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1760: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1761: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1762: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1763: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1764: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1765: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1766: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1767: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1768:
1.17 deraadt 1769: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1770: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1771: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1772: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1773: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1774: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1775: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1776: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1777: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1778:
1.23 niklas 1779: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1780: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1781: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1782: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1783: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1784: efforts.
1785: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1786: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1787: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1788: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1789: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1790: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1791:
1.132 louis 1792: <li><strong>
1793: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1794: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1795: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1796: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1797: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1798: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1799: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1800: <p>
1.23 niklas 1801:
1.31 deraadt 1802: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1803: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1804: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1805: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1806: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1807: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1808: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1809: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1810: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1811: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1812:
1.201 deraadt 1813: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1814: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1815: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1816: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1817: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1818: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1819: <p>
1.236 jose 1820: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1821:
1.132 louis 1822: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1823:
1.236 jose 1824: <ul>
1.216 jose 1825: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1826: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1827: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1828: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1829: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1830: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1831: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1832: <p>
1833:
1.216 jose 1834: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1835: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1836: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1837: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1838: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1839: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1840: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1841: There were many other OpenBSD
1842: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1843: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1844:
1845: <ul>
1846: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1847: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1848: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1849: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1850: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1851: </ul>
1852: <p>
1853:
1854: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1855: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1856: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1857: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1858: <p>
1859:
1860: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1861: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1862: Software '99</a></strong>,
1863: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1864: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1865: <a
1.375 grunk 1866: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1867: <p>
1868:
1869: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1870: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1871: 1999</a></strong>,
1872: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1873: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1874: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1875: <p>
1876:
1.236 jose 1877: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1878: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1879: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1880: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1881: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1882: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1883: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1884: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1885: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1886: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1887: conference in Stockholm.
1888: <p>
1889:
1890: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1891: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1892: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1893: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1894: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1895: coordinated.
1896: <p>
1897:
1898: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1899: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1900: Security</a></strong>,
1901: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1902: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1903: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1904: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1905: significant security roles.
1906: <p>
1907:
1908: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1909: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1910: meeting</a></strong>,
1911: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1912: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1913: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1914: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1915: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1916: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1917: <p>
1.45 jason 1918:
1.132 louis 1919: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1920: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1921: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1922: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1923: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1924: <p>
1.132 louis 1925:
1.236 jose 1926: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1927: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1928: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1929: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1930: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1931: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1932: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1933: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1934: June.)
1.132 louis 1935: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1936: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1937: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1938:
1.375 grunk 1939: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1940: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1941: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1942: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1943: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1944: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1945: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1946: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1947: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1948: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1949: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1950: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1951: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1952: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1953: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1954: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1955: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1956: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1957: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1958: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1959: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1960: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1961: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1962: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1963: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1964: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1965: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1966: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1967:
1.51 deraadt 1968: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1969: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1970: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1971: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1972: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1973: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1974: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1975: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1976: <p>
1977:
1.53 jakob 1978: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1979: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1980: meeting</a></strong>,
1981: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1982: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1983: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1984: <p>
1985:
1.132 louis 1986: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1987: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1988: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1989: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1990: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1991: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1992: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1993: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1994: <p>
1.236 jose 1995: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1996:
1.132 louis 1997: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1998:
1.236 jose 1999: <ul>
1.132 louis 2000: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2001: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2002: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2003: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2004: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2005: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2006: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2007: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2008: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2009: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2010: <p>
2011:
1.236 jose 2012: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2013: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2014: Conference</a></strong>,
2015: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2016: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2017: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2018: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2019: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2020: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2021: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2022: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2023: <br>
2024: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2025: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2026: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2027: <p>
2028:
1.73 deraadt 2029: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2030: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2031: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2032: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2033: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2034: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2035: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2036: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2037: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2038:
1.236 jose 2039: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2040: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2041: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2042: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2043: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2044: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2045: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2046: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2047:
1.80 deraadt 2048: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2049: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2050: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2051: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2052: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2053: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2054: <p>
2055:
1.93 louis 2056: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2057: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2058: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2059: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2060: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2061: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2062: <p>
2063:
1.216 jose 2064: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2065: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2066: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2067: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2068: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2069: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2070: <p>
2071:
1.236 jose 2072: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2073: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2074: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2075: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2076: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2077: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2078: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2079: <br>
2080: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2081: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2082: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2083: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2084: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2085:
1.236 jose 2086: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2087: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2088: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2089: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2090: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2091: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2092: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2093: <p>
2094:
1.236 jose 2095: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2096: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2097: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2098: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2099: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2100: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2101: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2102: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2103: <br>
2104: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2105: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2106: <p>
2107:
1.105 wvdputte 2108: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2109: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2110: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2111: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2112: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2113: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2114: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2115: <br>
1.132 louis 2116: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2117: <p>
1.236 jose 2118: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2119:
1.132 louis 2120: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2121:
1.236 jose 2122: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2123: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2125: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2126: Niels held a
2127: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2128: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2129: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2130: <p>
1.132 louis 2131:
1.236 jose 2132: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2133: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2134: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2135: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2136: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2137: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2138:
1.236 jose 2139: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2140: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2141: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2142: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2143: <br>
2144: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2145: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2146: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2147: <p>
2148:
1.125 deraadt 2149: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2150: <a
2151: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2152: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2153: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2154: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2155: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2156:
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