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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>
1.599 mbalmer 44: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
45: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
46: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
47: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
48: run by the usual suspects.
49: <p>
50:
1.588 espie 51: </ul>
52:
1.597 mbalmer 53: <hr>
54:
55: <h2>Past events:</h2>
56:
1.445 martin 57: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 58: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 59:
1.588 espie 60: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 61: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
62: Berlin</a></strong>,
63: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 64: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 65: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 66: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 67: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
68: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 69: <p>
70:
1.594 mbalmer 71: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
72: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
73: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
74: For details, please email <a href=mailto:grange@opensd.org>Grange</a>
75: <p>
76:
1.515 tom 77: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
78: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 79: 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 80: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 81: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
82: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 83: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 84: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 85: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 86: <p>
1.535 deraadt 87: <ul>
1.581 claudio 88: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
89: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 90: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
91: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.537 deraadt 92: <li>Felix Kronlage: <i>Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</i>
1.584 jsg 93: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
94: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 95: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 96: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
97: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
98: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 99: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
100: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 101: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 102: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
103: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 104: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 105: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 106: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
107: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
108: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 109: stuff.
110: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 111:
1.575 reyk 112: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
113: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
114: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
115: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
116: as a reference project for secure software.
117: <p>
118:
1.583 henning 119: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
120: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
121: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
122: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
123: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
124: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
125: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
126: <p>
127:
1.565 krw 128: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
129: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
130: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
131: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 132: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
133: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 134: <p>
135:
1.559 jason 136: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
137: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
138: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
139: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
140: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 141: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 142: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 143: <ul>
144: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 145: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
146: <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>]
147: <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>]
148: <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 149: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
150: </ul>
151: <p>
152:
1.556 fgsch 153: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
154: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
155: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 156: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
157: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 158: <p>
159:
1.589 aanriot 160: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
161: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
162: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
163: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
164: vendors to open up their documentation.
165: <p>
166:
1.553 grunk 167: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
168: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
169: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
170: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
171: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
172: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
173: and some other volunteers.
174: <p>
175:
1.550 henning 176: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
177: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
178: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
179: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
180: <p>
181:
1.547 aanriot 182: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
183: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
184: 2006</a></strong>,
185: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
186: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
187: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
188: <p>
189:
1.546 mcbride 190: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
191: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
192: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
193: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
194: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
195: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
196: and
197: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
198: <p>
199:
1.532 wvdputte 200: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
201: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
202: </a></strong>,
203: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
204: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
205: <p>
206:
1.528 wvdputte 207: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
208: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
209: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
210: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
211: <p>
212:
1.525 wvdputte 213: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
214: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
215: </strong>,
216: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
217: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
218: <p>
219:
1.521 fkr 220: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
221: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
222: </strong>,
223: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
224: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
225: <p>
226:
1.518 tedu 227: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
228: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
229: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
230: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
231: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
235: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
236: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 237: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
238: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 239: <p>
1.475 deraadt 240:
1.510 wvdputte 241: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
242: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
243: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
244: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
245: Serge Basterot.
246: <p>
247:
1.508 wvdputte 248: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
249: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
250: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
251: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 252: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 253: Tim Kornau.
254: <p>
255:
1.507 mbalmer 256: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
257: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
258: </strong>,
259: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
260: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
261: <p>
262:
1.506 deraadt 263: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 264: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 265: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
266: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
267: gave a talk
268: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
269: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
270: and live demonstration on redundant failover
271: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
272: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
273: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
274: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
275: <p>
276:
1.502 mbalmer 277: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
278: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
279: </strong>
280: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
281: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 282: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 283: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
284: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
285: <p>
286:
1.500 deraadt 287: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
288: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
289: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 290: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
291: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 292: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
293: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
294: <p>
295:
1.589 aanriot 296: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
297: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
298: </strong>,
299: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
300: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
301: <p>
302:
1.585 aanriot 303: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 304: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
305: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 306: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 307: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 308: <p>
309:
1.491 bernd 310: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
311: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
312: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
313: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
314: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
315: PF tutorial</a>.
316: <p>
317:
1.490 reyk 318: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
319: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
320: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
321: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
322: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
323: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
324: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
325: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
326: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
327: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
328: <p>
329:
1.489 bernd 330: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
331: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
332: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
333: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
334: the overall system and its great features.
335: <p>
336:
1.592 claudio 337: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 338: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
339: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
340: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
341: <p>
342:
1.592 claudio 343: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 344: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
345: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
346: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
347: <ul>
348: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
349: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 350: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 351: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
352: distributions...
353: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
354: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 355: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 356: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 357: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
358: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
359: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
360: how full redundancy can be achieved.
361: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 362: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
363: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
364: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
365: </ul>
366: <br>
367: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 368: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 369: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
370: <br>
371: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
372: usual suspects.
373: <p>
374:
1.486 mickey 375: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
376: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
377: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
378: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 379: (<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 380: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
381: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
382: <p>
383:
1.484 mbalmer 384: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
385: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
386: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
387: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
388: talk. There is a
389: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
390: <p>
391:
1.478 mbalmer 392: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
393: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
394: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
395: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
396: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
397: well received.
398: <br>
399: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
400: and we could draw a lot of attention.
401: <p>
402:
1.479 deraadt 403: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
404: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
405: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
406: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 407: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
408: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
409: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 410: only).
411: <p>
412:
1.475 deraadt 413: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
414: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
415: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
416: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
417: Jason Dixon presented
418: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
419: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
420: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
421: <br>
422: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
423: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
424: <p>
425:
426: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
427: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
428: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
429: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
430: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
431: <br>
432: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
433: on sale.
434: <p>
435:
1.469 tom 436: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
437: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
438: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
439: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
440: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
441: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
442: Peter N. M. Hansteen
443: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
444: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
445: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
446: drivers for OpenBSD".
447: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
448: <p>
449:
1.459 henning 450: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
451: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
452: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
453: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
454: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
455: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
456: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
457: <p>
458:
1.457 wvdputte 459: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
460: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
461: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
462: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 463: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 464: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
465: BSD dinner. More details and
466: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 467: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 468: <p>
469:
470: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
471: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
472: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
473: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
474: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
475: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
476: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
477: <p>
1.455 grunk 478:
1.456 henning 479: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
480: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
481: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
482: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
483: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
484: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
485: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
486: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
487: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
488: <p>
489:
1.455 grunk 490: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
491: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
492: </strong>,
493: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
494: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
495: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
496: <p>
497: </ul>
498:
1.296 mcbride 499: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 500:
501: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 502:
1.445 martin 503: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
504: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
505: Berlin</a></strong>,
506: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
507: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
508: <p>
509:
1.585 aanriot 510: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 511: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
512: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
513: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 514: <p>
515:
1.435 matthieu 516: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
517: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
518: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
519: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
520: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 521: event.
1.444 grunk 522: The program included a
523: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 524: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
525: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 526: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
527: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 528: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 529: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 530: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 531: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 532: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 533: <p>
1.435 matthieu 534: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
535: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
536: <p>
537:
1.434 bernd 538: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
539: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
540: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
541: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
542: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
543: <p>
544:
1.441 niallo 545: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
546: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
547: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
548: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
549: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
550: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
551: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
552: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
553: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
554: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
555: scripts.
556: <p>
557:
1.424 mbalmer 558: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
559: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
560: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 561: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
562: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
563: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 564: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 565: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 566: talks, including
567: <ul>
568: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
569: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
570: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
571: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
572: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
573: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 574: <p>
575:
576: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
577: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
578: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 579: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 580: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
581: <p>
582:
1.418 djm 583: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
584: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
585: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
586: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
587: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
588: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
589: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 590: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
591: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
592: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 593: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
594: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
595: <p>
596:
1.415 aanriot 597: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
598: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
599: 2005</a></strong>,
600: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
601: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
602: help of Thierry Thomas.
603: <p>
604:
1.420 deraadt 605: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
606: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
607: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
608: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
609: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
610: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
611: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
612: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
613: registration was mandatory.<br>
614: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 615: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 616: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
617: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
618: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 619: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 620: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
621: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
622: mechanism.
623: <p>
624:
1.414 bernd 625: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
626: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
627: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
628: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
629: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
633: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
634: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
635: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
636: <p>
637:
1.410 wvdputte 638: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 639: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 640: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 641: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 642: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 643: <p>
644:
645: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
646: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
647: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
648: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 649: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 650: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
651: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
652: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
653: installed on your computer.
654: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 655: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 656: <p>
657:
1.404 wvdputte 658: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
659: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 660: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 661: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
662: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 663: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 664: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
665: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
666: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
667: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
668: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
669: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
670: <p>
671:
672: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
673: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
674: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
675: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
676: <p>
677:
1.403 henning 678: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
679: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 680: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 681: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
682: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
683: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
684: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
685: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
686: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
687: <p>
688:
1.388 tom 689: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
690: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
691: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 692: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 693: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
694: <p>
695:
1.385 mickey 696: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 697: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 698: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 699: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
700: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 701: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
702: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 703: and an excellent
704: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
705: If you want to see what happened previously, check
706: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
707: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
708: <p>
709:
1.382 pedro 710: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 711: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 712: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 713: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 714: <p>
715:
1.378 aanriot 716: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
717: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 718: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 719: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
720: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
721: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
722: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 723: <p>
724:
1.375 grunk 725: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
726: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 727: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 728: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
729: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
730: <p>
731:
1.374 grunk 732: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
733: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 734: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 735: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
736: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
737: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
738: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
739: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
740: <p>
741:
1.371 deraadt 742: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
743: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 744: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 745: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
746: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
747: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
748: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
749: He demonstrated how companies can easily
750: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
751: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
752: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
753: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
754: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
755: <p>
756:
1.366 martin 757: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
758: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
759: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
760: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
761: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
762: CDs and shirts.
763: <p>
764:
1.365 mcbride 765: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
766: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
767: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
768: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
769: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
770: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
771: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
772: <br>
773: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
774: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
775: <p>
776:
1.362 reyk 777: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
778: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
779: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
780: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
781: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
782: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
783: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
784: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
785: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
786: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
787: <p>
788:
1.358 mcbride 789: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
790: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
791: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
792: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
793: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
794: <p>
795:
1.357 henning 796: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
797: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
798: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
799: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
800: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
801: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
802: <p>
803:
1.384 tom 804: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 805: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 806: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 807: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
808: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
809: packages work in front of about 30 people.
810: <p>
811:
1.353 henning 812: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
813: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 814: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 815: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
816: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
817: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
818: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 819: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 820: <p>
821:
1.352 henning 822: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
823: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 824: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 825: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
826: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
827: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
828: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
829: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
830: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
831: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
832: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
833: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
834: available if you couldn't make it there.
835: <p>
836:
1.589 aanriot 837:
838: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
839: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
840: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
841: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
842: <p>
843:
1.350 marius 844: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
845: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 846: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 847: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
848: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
849: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
850: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
851: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 852: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 853: <p>
854:
1.585 aanriot 855: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 856: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
857: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 858: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 859: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 860: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 861: <p>
862:
1.337 deraadt 863: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
864: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 865: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 866: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
867: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 868: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 869: source firewalls.
870: <p>
871:
1.317 henning 872: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
873: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
874: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 875: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 876: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 877: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 878: <p>
879:
1.312 deraadt 880: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
881: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
882: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 883: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
884: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 885: <p>
886:
1.319 saad 887: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
888: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
889: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
890: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
891: <p>
892:
1.310 mickey 893: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 894: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 895: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 896: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 897: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 898: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 899: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 900: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 901: <p>
1.312 deraadt 902:
1.308 deraadt 903: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
904: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
905: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
906: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 907: talks. Topics included
908: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 909: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
910: OpenBGPD, and pf.
911: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 912: <p>
913:
1.304 saad 914: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
915: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
916: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
917: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
918: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 919: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 920: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 921: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
922: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 923: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 924: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
925: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
926: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 927: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 928: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
929: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
930: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
931: <p>
1.301 saad 932: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
933: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
934: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
935: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
936: <p>
937: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
938: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
939: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
940: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
941: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
942: <p>
1.293 saad 943: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
944: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
945: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
946: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
947: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
948: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 949: french translation team.<br>
950: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
951: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
952: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
953: available.<br>
954: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 955: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
956: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
957: <p>
1.296 mcbride 958: </ul>
1.293 saad 959:
1.296 mcbride 960: <h3>2004</h3>
961:
962: <ul>
1.287 henning 963: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
964: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 965: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 966: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
967: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
968: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 969: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 970: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
971: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
972: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
973: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
974: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
975: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 976: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 977: driver.
978: <p>
1.248 deraadt 979:
1.286 kevlo 980: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 981: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 982: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
983: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
984: <p>
985:
1.285 deraadt 986: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
987: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
988: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
989: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
990: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
991: <p>
992:
1.283 saad 993: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
994: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
995: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
996: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
997: meeting of the
998: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
999: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1000: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1001: <p>
1002:
1.282 henning 1003: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1004: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1005: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1006: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1007: two days, on bgpd
1008: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1009: ntpd
1010: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1011: and signal handlers
1012: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1013: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1014: <p>
1015:
1.275 deraadt 1016: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1017: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1018: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1019: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1020: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1021: Room B-02 of the
1022: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1023: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1024: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1025: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1026: The talk was also given the following day at the
1027: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1028: <p>
1029:
1.271 henning 1030: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1031: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1032: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1033: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1034: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1035: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1036: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1037: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1038: <p>
1039:
1040: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1042: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1043: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1044: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1045: <p>
1046:
1.276 deraadt 1047: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1048: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1049: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1050: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1051: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1052: <p>
1053:
1054: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1055: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1056: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1057: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1058: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1059: <p>
1060:
1061: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1062: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1063: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1064: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1065: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1066: <p>
1067:
1.268 krw 1068: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1069: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1070: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1071: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1072: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1073: <p>
1074:
1.375 grunk 1075: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1076: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1077: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1078: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1079: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1080: <p>
1081:
1082: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1083: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1084: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1085: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1086: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1087: <p>
1088:
1.265 wvdputte 1089: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1090: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1091: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1092: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1093: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1094: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1095: event."
1096: <br>
1097: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1098: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1099: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1100: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1101: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1102: <br>
1103: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1104: <p>
1105:
1.262 henning 1106: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1107: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1108: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1109: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1110: Henning's slides from his talks about
1111: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1112: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1113: are available.
1114: <p>
1115:
1.261 deraadt 1116: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1117: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1118: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1119: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1120: newly extended version of the
1121: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1122: For more information, see this
1123: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1124: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1125: <p>
1126:
1127:
1.257 saad 1128: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1129: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1130: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1131: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1132: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1133: <p>
1134:
1135: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1136: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1137: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1138: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1139: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.254 xsa 1142: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1143: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1144: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1145: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1146: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1147: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1148: a basic talk about pf.
1149: <p>
1150:
1.248 deraadt 1151: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1152: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1153: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1154: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1155: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1156: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1157: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1158: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1159: <p>
1160:
1.247 canacar 1161: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1162: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1163: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1164: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1165: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1166: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1167: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1168: projects were discussed.<br>
1169: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1170: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1171: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1172: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1173: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1174: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1175: <p>
1176:
1.242 henning 1177: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1178: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1179: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1180: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1181: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1182: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1183: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1184: and systrace
1.263 saad 1185: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1186: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1187: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1188: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1189: <p>
1190:
1.240 espie 1191: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1192: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1193: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1194: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1195: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1196: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1197: <p>
1198:
1199: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1200: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1201: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1202: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1203: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1204: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1205: <p>
1206: </ul>
1207:
1.188 henning 1208: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1209:
1210: <ul>
1.232 jose 1211: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1212: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1213: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1214: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1215: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1216: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1217: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1218: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1219: <p>
1.232 jose 1220:
1.228 jose 1221: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1222: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1223: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1224: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1225: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1226: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1227: with OpenBSD PF.
1228: <p>
1229:
1230: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1231: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1232: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1233: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1234: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1235: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1236: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1237: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1238: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1239: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1240: slides in PDF format </a>
1241: (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 1242: <p>
1243:
1.227 jose 1244: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1245: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1246: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1247: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1251: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1252: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1253: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1254: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1255: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1256: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1257: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1258: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1259: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1260: in Internet worm defenses.
1261: <p>
1262:
1.224 miod 1263: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1264: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1265: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1266: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1267: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1268: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1269: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1270: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1271: OpenBSD.
1272: <p>
1273:
1274: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1275: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1276: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1277: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1278: <p>
1279:
1280: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1281: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1282: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1283: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1284: <p>
1285:
1.219 jose 1286: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1287: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1288: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1289: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1290: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1291: <p>
1292:
1.218 jose 1293: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1294: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1295: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1296: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1297: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1298: <p>
1299:
1.214 henning 1300: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1301: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1302: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1303: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1304: <p>
1305:
1.213 jose 1306: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1307: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1308: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1309: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1310: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1311: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1312: <p>
1313:
1.211 jose 1314: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1315: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1316: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1317: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1321: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1322: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1323: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1324: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1325: <p>
1326:
1.209 wvdputte 1327: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1328: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1329: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1330: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1331: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1332:
1.202 jason 1333: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1334: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1335: Conference</a></strong>,
1336: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1337: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1338: <ul>
1.216 jose 1339: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1340: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1341: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1342: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1343: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1344: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1345: </ul>
1346: <p>
1347:
1.216 jose 1348: <li><strong>
1349: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1350: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1351: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1352: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1353: <p>
1354:
1.216 jose 1355: <li><strong>
1356: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1357: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1358: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1359: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1360: <p>
1361:
1.216 jose 1362: <li><strong>
1363: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1364: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1365: 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 1366: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1367: <p>
1368:
1.216 jose 1369: <li><strong>
1370: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1371: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1372: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1373: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1374: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1375: user groups.
1376: <p>
1377:
1.236 jose 1378: <li><strong>
1379: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1380: Group</a></strong>,
1381: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1382: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1383: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1384: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1385: <p>
1386:
1.216 jose 1387: <li><strong>
1388: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1389: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1390: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1391: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1392: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1393: <p>
1394:
1.216 jose 1395: <li><strong>
1396: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1397: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1398: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1399: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1400: <p>
1.236 jose 1401: </ul>
1.185 miod 1402:
1.161 millert 1403: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1404:
1405: <ul>
1406: <li><strong>
1407: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1408: Congress</a></strong>,
1409: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1410: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1411: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1412: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1413: <p>
1.177 jason 1414:
1.216 jose 1415: <li><strong>
1416: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1417: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1418: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1419: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1420: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1421: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1422: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1423: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1424: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1425: <p>
1.178 pb 1426:
1.216 jose 1427: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1428: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1429: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1430: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1431: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1432: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1433: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1434: <p>
1435:
1.216 jose 1436: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1437: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1438: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1439: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1440: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1441: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1442: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1443: <p>
1444:
1445: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1446: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1447: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1448: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1449: Niels Provos presented his
1450: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1451: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1452: <p>
1.172 miod 1453:
1.216 jose 1454: <li><strong>
1455: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1456: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1457: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1458: <p>
1459:
1.216 jose 1460: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1461: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1462: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1463: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1464: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1465: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1466: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1467: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1468: <p>
1.168 miod 1469:
1.216 jose 1470: <li><strong>
1471: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1472: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1473: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1474: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1475: are available.
1.161 millert 1476: <p>
1477:
1.216 jose 1478: <li><strong>
1479: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1480: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1481: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1482: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1483: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1484: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1485: <p>
1486:
1.216 jose 1487: <li><strong>
1488: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1489: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1490: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1491: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1492: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1493: <p>
1.236 jose 1494: </ul>
1.164 millert 1495:
1.152 jakob 1496: <h3>2001</h3>
1497:
1.236 jose 1498: <ul>
1.216 jose 1499: <li><strong>
1500: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1501: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1502: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1503: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1504: <p>
1505:
1.216 jose 1506: <li><strong>
1507: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1508: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1509: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1510: <p>
1511:
1.158 deraadt 1512: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1513: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1514: 2001</a></strong>,
1515: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1516: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1517: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1518: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1519: <p>
1520:
1.216 jose 1521: <li><strong>
1522: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1523: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1524: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1525: <p>
1526:
1.201 deraadt 1527: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1528: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1529: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1530: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1531:
1.150 wvdputte 1532: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1533: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1534: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1535: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1536: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1537: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1538: <p>
1.137 aaron 1539:
1540: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1541: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1542: Conference</a></strong>,
1543: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1544: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1545: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1546: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1547: <p>
1548:
1549: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1550: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1551: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1552: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1553: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1554: <p>
1555:
1556: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1557: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1558: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1559: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1560: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1561: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1562: <p>
1563:
1564: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1565: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1566: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1567: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1568: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1572: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1573: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1574: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1575: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1576: security community.
1577: <p>
1578:
1579: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1580: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1581: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1582: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1583: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1584: <p>
1585:
1586: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1587: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1588: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1589: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1590: <p>
1.236 jose 1591: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1592:
1.132 louis 1593: <h3>2000</h3>
1594:
1.236 jose 1595: <ul>
1.132 louis 1596: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1597: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1598: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1599: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1600: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1601: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1602: <p>
1603:
1604: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1605: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1606: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1607: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1608: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1609: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1610: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1611: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1612: <p>
1613:
1614: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1615: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1616: 2000</a></strong>,
1617: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1618: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1619: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1620: <p>
1.4 millert 1621:
1.132 louis 1622: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1623: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1624: Summit</a></strong>,
1625: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1626: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1627: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1628: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1629:
1630: <ul>
1.236 jose 1631: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1632: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1633: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1634: </ul>
1.4 millert 1635: <p>
1.132 louis 1636:
1.7 deraadt 1637: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1638: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1639: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1640: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1641: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1642: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1643: mind (drinks afterwards).
1644: <p>
1645:
1.216 jose 1646: <li><strong>
1647: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1648: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1649: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1650: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1651: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1652:
1.132 louis 1653: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1654: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1655: Revolution</a></strong>,
1656: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1657: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1658: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1659: <p>
1660:
1.132 louis 1661: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1662: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1663: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1664: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1665: <ul>
1.236 jose 1666: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1667: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1668: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1669: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1670: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1671: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1672: <p>
1.132 louis 1673:
1.10 provos 1674: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1675: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1676: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1677: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1678: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1679: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1680: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1681: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1682: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1683: <br>
1684: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1685: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1686: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1687:
1.132 louis 1688: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1689: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1690: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1691: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1692: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1693: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1694: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1695: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1696: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1697: and spoke about
1698: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1699: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1700: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1701: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1702: <p>
1.132 louis 1703:
1.6 deraadt 1704: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1705: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1706: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1707: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1708: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1709: <br>
1710: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1711: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1712: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1713: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1714:
1.216 jose 1715: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1716: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1717: Conference.</a></strong>,
1718: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1719: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1720: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1721: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1722: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1723: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1724: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1725: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1726: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1727: <ul>
1728:
1729: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1730: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1731: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1732: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1733: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1734:
1735: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1736: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1737: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1738: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1739: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1740:
1.132 louis 1741: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1742: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1743: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1744: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1745: <p>
1746:
1.132 louis 1747: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1748: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1749: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1750: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1751: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1752: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1753: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1754: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1755:
1.132 louis 1756: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1757: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1758: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1759: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1760: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1761: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1762: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1763: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1764: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1765:
1.17 deraadt 1766: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1767: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1768: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1769: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1770: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1771: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1772: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1773: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1774: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1775:
1.23 niklas 1776: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1777: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1778: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1779: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1780: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1781: efforts.
1782: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1783: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1784: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1785: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1786: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1787: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1788:
1.132 louis 1789: <li><strong>
1790: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1791: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1792: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1793: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1794: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1795: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1796: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1797: <p>
1.23 niklas 1798:
1.31 deraadt 1799: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1800: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1801: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1802: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1803: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1804: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1805: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1806: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1807: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1808: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1809:
1.201 deraadt 1810: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1811: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1812: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1813: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1814: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1815: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1816: <p>
1.236 jose 1817: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1818:
1.132 louis 1819: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1820:
1.236 jose 1821: <ul>
1.216 jose 1822: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1823: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1824: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1825: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1826: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1827: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1828: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1829: <p>
1830:
1.216 jose 1831: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1832: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1833: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1834: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1835: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1836: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1837: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1838: There were many other OpenBSD
1839: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1840: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1841:
1842: <ul>
1843: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1844: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1845: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1846: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1847: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1848: </ul>
1849: <p>
1850:
1851: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1852: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1853: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1854: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1855: <p>
1856:
1857: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1858: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1859: Software '99</a></strong>,
1860: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1861: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1862: <a
1.375 grunk 1863: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1864: <p>
1865:
1866: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1867: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1868: 1999</a></strong>,
1869: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1870: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1871: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1872: <p>
1873:
1.236 jose 1874: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 1875: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
1876: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 1877: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 1878: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 1879: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
1880: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
1881: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
1882: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
1883: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
1884: conference in Stockholm.
1885: <p>
1886:
1887: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1888: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1889: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 1890: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
1891: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
1892: coordinated.
1893: <p>
1894:
1895: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1896: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 1897: Security</a></strong>,
1898: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1899: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
1900: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
1901: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
1902: significant security roles.
1903: <p>
1904:
1905: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1906: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 1907: meeting</a></strong>,
1908: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 1909: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
1910: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
1911: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 1912: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 1913: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
1914: <p>
1.45 jason 1915:
1.132 louis 1916: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1917: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1918: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1919: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 1920: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 1921: <p>
1.132 louis 1922:
1.236 jose 1923: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
1924: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 1925: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1926: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 1927: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 1928: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 1929: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
1930: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 1931: June.)
1.132 louis 1932: <br>
1.46 deraadt 1933: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 1934: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
1935:
1.375 grunk 1936: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 1937: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 1938: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 1939: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1940: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1941: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1942: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1943: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1944: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 1945: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1946: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 1947: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1948: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1949: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1950: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 1951: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1952: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
1953: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 1954: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1955: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1956: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1957: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 1958: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 1959: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 1960: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1961: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1962: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 1963: <p>
1.46 deraadt 1964:
1.51 deraadt 1965: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1966: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1967: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1968: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
1969: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
1970: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
1971: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
1972: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 1973: <p>
1974:
1.53 jakob 1975: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1976: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 1977: meeting</a></strong>,
1978: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1979: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
1980: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 1981: <p>
1982:
1.132 louis 1983: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1984: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 1985: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1986: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1987: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
1988: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
1989: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
1990: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 1991: <p>
1.236 jose 1992: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 1993:
1.132 louis 1994: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 1995:
1.236 jose 1996: <ul>
1.132 louis 1997: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 1998: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
1999: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2000: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2001: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2002: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2003: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2004: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2005: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2006: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2007: <p>
2008:
1.236 jose 2009: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2010: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2011: Conference</a></strong>,
2012: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2013: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2014: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2015: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2016: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2017: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2018: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2019: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2020: <br>
2021: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2022: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2023: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2024: <p>
2025:
1.73 deraadt 2026: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2027: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2028: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2029: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2030: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2031: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2032: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2033: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2034: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2035:
1.236 jose 2036: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2037: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2038: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2039: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2040: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2041: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2042: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2043: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2044:
1.80 deraadt 2045: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2046: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2047: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2048: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2049: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2050: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2051: <p>
2052:
1.93 louis 2053: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2054: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2055: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2056: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2057: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2058: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2059: <p>
2060:
1.216 jose 2061: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2062: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2063: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2064: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2065: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2066: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2067: <p>
2068:
1.236 jose 2069: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2070: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2071: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2072: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2073: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2074: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2075: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2076: <br>
2077: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2078: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2079: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2080: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2081: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2082:
1.236 jose 2083: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2084: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2085: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2086: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2087: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2088: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2089: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2090: <p>
2091:
1.236 jose 2092: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2093: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2094: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2095: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2096: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2097: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2098: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2099: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2100: <br>
2101: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2102: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2103: <p>
2104:
1.105 wvdputte 2105: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2106: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2107: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2108: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2109: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2110: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2111: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2112: <br>
1.132 louis 2113: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2114: <p>
1.236 jose 2115: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2116:
1.132 louis 2117: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2118:
1.236 jose 2119: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2120: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2121: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2122: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2123: Niels held a
2124: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2125: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2126: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2127: <p>
1.132 louis 2128:
1.236 jose 2129: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2130: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2131: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2132: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2133: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2134: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2135:
1.236 jose 2136: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2137: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2138: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2139: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2140: <br>
2141: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2142: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2143: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2144: <p>
2145:
1.125 deraadt 2146: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2147: <a
2148: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2149: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2150: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2151: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2152: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2153:
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