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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 23: <hr>
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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>
1.603 fkr 44: <p>
45:
1.624 grunk 46: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
47: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
48: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
49: There will be an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
50: Volunteers for helping there are welcome!<br>
51: Alexander will also give a general introduction talk to OpenBSD for
52: the rather Linux-related audience.
53: <p>
54:
1.615 deraadt 55: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
56: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 57: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
1.615 deraadt 58: This is a very large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt will
59: present a few talks.
60: <p>
61:
1.606 wvdputte 62: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
63: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 64: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
1.606 wvdputte 65: Small Open-Source event, there will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim
66: and Felix. On both days there will be an OpenBSD talk by Felix.
67: <p>
68:
1.625 wvdputte 69: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
70: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
71: 2007</a></strong>,
72: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
73: There will be a <a href= http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2>
74: presentation</a> by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
75: suspects.
76: <p>
77:
1.599 mbalmer 78: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
79: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
80: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
81: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
82: run by the usual suspects.
83: <p>
84:
1.614 deraadt 85: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
86: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
87: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
88: Several OpenBSD developers will be there. Peter Hansteen will give a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and present a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.
89: <p>
90:
1.621 wvdputte 91: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
92: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
93: </strong>,
94: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
95: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
96: run by the usual suspects.
97: <p>
98:
1.617 wvdputte 99: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
100: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
101: </strong>,
102: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
103: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
104: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
105: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
106: <p>
1.614 deraadt 107:
1.620 wvdputte 108: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
109: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
110: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
111: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
112: run by the usual suspects.
113: <p>
114:
1.612 mk 115: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
116: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 117: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
118: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
119: run by the usual suspects.
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
123: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
124: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
125: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 126: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
127: run by the usual suspects.
128: <p>
129:
1.588 espie 130: </ul>
131:
1.597 mbalmer 132: <hr>
133:
134: <h2>Past events:</h2>
135:
1.616 wvdputte 136: <h3>2007</h3>
137: <ul>
1.627 mcbride 138: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
139: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
140: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 141: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
142: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
143: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 144: Ryan McBride gave talks on <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-development/index.html">OpenBSD as a Development Platform</a> and <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-network_randomness/index.html">OpenBSD Network Randomness Injection: Further Improvements</a>.<br>
1.630 mbalmer 145: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
146: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 147: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
148: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 149: There were also PF tutorials back to back, Peter Hansteen's "Firewalling with OpenBSD's PF packet filter" and Ryan McBride's "Advanced PF Rulesets".
150: <p>
151:
1.622 fkr 152: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
153: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
154: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 155: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
156: <a href= http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/>best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 157: Felix gave a talk titled
158: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
159: <p>
160:
1.619 wvdputte 161: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
162: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
163: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
164: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
165: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
166: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
167: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
168: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 169:
170: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
171: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
172: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
173: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
174: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
175: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 176: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
177: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 178: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
179: <p>
180:
181: </ul>
182:
1.445 martin 183: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 184: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 185:
1.588 espie 186: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 187: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
188: Berlin</a></strong>,
189: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 190: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 191: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 192: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 193: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
194: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 195: <p>
196:
1.594 mbalmer 197: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
198: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
199: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
200: For details, please email <a href=mailto:grange@opensd.org>Grange</a>
201: <p>
202:
1.515 tom 203: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
204: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 205: 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 206: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 207: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
208: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 209: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 210: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 211: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 212: <p>
1.535 deraadt 213: <ul>
1.581 claudio 214: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
215: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 216: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
217: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 218: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 219: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
220: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 221: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 222: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
223: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
224: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 225: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
226: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 227: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 228: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
229: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 230: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 231: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 232: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
233: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
234: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 235: stuff.
236: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 237:
1.575 reyk 238: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
239: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
240: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
241: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
242: as a reference project for secure software.
243: <p>
244:
1.583 henning 245: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
246: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
247: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
248: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
249: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
250: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
251: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
252: <p>
253:
1.565 krw 254: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
255: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
256: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
257: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 258: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
259: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 260: <p>
261:
1.559 jason 262: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
263: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
264: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
265: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
266: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 267: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 268: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 269: <ul>
270: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 271: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 272: <li>Jason Wright: <a href="papers/nycbsdcon06_sparc64/">OpenBSD/sparc64</a> [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/2.1.mp3">audio</a>]
1.563 jason 273: <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>]
274: <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 275: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
276: </ul>
277: <p>
278:
1.556 fgsch 279: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
280: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
281: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 282: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
283: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 284: <p>
285:
1.589 aanriot 286: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
287: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
288: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
289: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
290: vendors to open up their documentation.
291: <p>
292:
1.553 grunk 293: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
294: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
295: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
296: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
297: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
298: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
299: and some other volunteers.
300: <p>
301:
1.550 henning 302: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
303: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
304: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
305: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
306: <p>
307:
1.547 aanriot 308: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
309: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
310: 2006</a></strong>,
311: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
312: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
313: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
314: <p>
315:
1.546 mcbride 316: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
317: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
318: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
319: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
320: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
321: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
322: and
323: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
324: <p>
325:
1.532 wvdputte 326: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
327: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
328: </a></strong>,
329: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
330: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
331: <p>
332:
1.528 wvdputte 333: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
334: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
335: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
336: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
337: <p>
338:
1.525 wvdputte 339: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
340: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
341: </strong>,
342: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
343: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
344: <p>
345:
1.521 fkr 346: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
347: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
348: </strong>,
349: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
350: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
351: <p>
352:
1.518 tedu 353: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
354: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
355: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
356: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
357: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
358: <p>
359:
360: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
361: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
362: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 363: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
364: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 365: <p>
1.475 deraadt 366:
1.510 wvdputte 367: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
368: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
369: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
370: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
371: Serge Basterot.
372: <p>
373:
1.508 wvdputte 374: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
375: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
376: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
377: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 378: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 379: Tim Kornau.
380: <p>
381:
1.507 mbalmer 382: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
383: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
384: </strong>,
385: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
386: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
387: <p>
388:
1.506 deraadt 389: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 390: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 391: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
392: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
393: gave a talk
394: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
395: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
396: and live demonstration on redundant failover
397: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
398: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
399: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
400: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
401: <p>
402:
1.502 mbalmer 403: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
404: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
405: </strong>
406: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
407: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 408: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 409: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
410: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
411: <p>
412:
1.500 deraadt 413: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
414: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
415: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 416: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
417: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 418: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
419: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
420: <p>
421:
1.589 aanriot 422: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
423: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
424: </strong>,
425: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
426: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
427: <p>
428:
1.585 aanriot 429: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 430: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
431: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 432: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 433: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 434: <p>
435:
1.491 bernd 436: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
437: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
438: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
439: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
440: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
441: PF tutorial</a>.
442: <p>
443:
1.490 reyk 444: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
445: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
446: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
447: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
448: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
449: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
450: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
451: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
452: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
453: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
454: <p>
455:
1.489 bernd 456: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
457: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
458: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
459: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
460: the overall system and its great features.
461: <p>
462:
1.592 claudio 463: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 464: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
465: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
466: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
467: <p>
468:
1.592 claudio 469: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 470: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
471: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
472: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
473: <ul>
474: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
475: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 476: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 477: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
478: distributions...
479: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
480: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 481: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 482: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 483: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
484: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
485: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
486: how full redundancy can be achieved.
487: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 488: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
489: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
490: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
491: </ul>
492: <br>
493: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 494: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 495: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
496: <br>
497: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
498: usual suspects.
499: <p>
500:
1.486 mickey 501: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
502: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
503: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
504: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 505: (<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 506: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
507: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
508: <p>
509:
1.484 mbalmer 510: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
511: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
512: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
513: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
514: talk. There is a
515: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
516: <p>
517:
1.478 mbalmer 518: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
519: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
520: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
521: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
522: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
523: well received.
524: <br>
525: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
526: and we could draw a lot of attention.
527: <p>
528:
1.479 deraadt 529: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
530: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
531: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
532: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 533: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
534: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
535: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 536: only).
537: <p>
538:
1.475 deraadt 539: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
540: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
541: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
542: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
543: Jason Dixon presented
544: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
545: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
546: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
547: <br>
548: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
549: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
553: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
554: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
555: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
556: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
557: <br>
558: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
559: on sale.
560: <p>
561:
1.469 tom 562: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
563: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
564: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
565: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
566: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
567: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
568: Peter N. M. Hansteen
569: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
570: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
571: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
572: drivers for OpenBSD".
573: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
574: <p>
575:
1.459 henning 576: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
577: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
578: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
579: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
580: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
581: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
582: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
583: <p>
584:
1.457 wvdputte 585: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
586: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
587: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
588: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 589: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 590: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
591: BSD dinner. More details and
592: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 593: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 594: <p>
595:
596: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
597: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
598: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
599: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
600: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
601: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
602: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
603: <p>
1.455 grunk 604:
1.456 henning 605: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
606: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
607: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
608: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
609: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
610: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
611: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
612: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
613: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
614: <p>
615:
1.455 grunk 616: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
617: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
618: </strong>,
619: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
620: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
621: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
622: <p>
623: </ul>
624:
1.296 mcbride 625: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 626:
627: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 628:
1.445 martin 629: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
630: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
631: Berlin</a></strong>,
632: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
633: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
634: <p>
635:
1.585 aanriot 636: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 637: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
638: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
639: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 640: <p>
641:
1.435 matthieu 642: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
643: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
644: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
645: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
646: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 647: event.
1.444 grunk 648: The program included a
649: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 650: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
651: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 652: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
653: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 654: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 655: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 656: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 657: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 658: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 659: <p>
1.435 matthieu 660: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
661: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
662: <p>
663:
1.434 bernd 664: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
665: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
666: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
667: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
668: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
669: <p>
670:
1.441 niallo 671: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
672: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
673: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
674: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
675: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
676: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
677: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
678: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
679: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
680: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
681: scripts.
682: <p>
683:
1.424 mbalmer 684: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
685: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
686: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 687: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
688: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
689: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 690: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 691: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 692: talks, including
693: <ul>
694: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
695: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
696: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
697: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
698: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
699: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 700: <p>
701:
702: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
703: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
704: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 705: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 706: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
707: <p>
708:
1.418 djm 709: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
710: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
711: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
712: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
713: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
714: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
715: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 716: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
717: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
718: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 719: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
720: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
721: <p>
722:
1.415 aanriot 723: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
724: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
725: 2005</a></strong>,
726: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
727: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
728: help of Thierry Thomas.
729: <p>
730:
1.420 deraadt 731: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
732: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
733: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
734: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
735: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
736: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
737: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
738: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
739: registration was mandatory.<br>
740: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 741: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 742: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
743: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
744: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 745: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 746: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
747: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
748: mechanism.
749: <p>
750:
1.414 bernd 751: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
752: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
753: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
754: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
755: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
759: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
760: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
761: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
762: <p>
763:
1.410 wvdputte 764: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 765: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 766: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 767: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 768: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 769: <p>
770:
771: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
772: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
773: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
774: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 775: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 776: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
777: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
778: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
779: installed on your computer.
780: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 781: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 782: <p>
783:
1.404 wvdputte 784: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
785: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 786: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 787: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
788: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 789: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 790: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
791: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
792: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
793: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
794: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
795: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
796: <p>
797:
798: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
799: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
800: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
801: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
802: <p>
803:
1.403 henning 804: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
805: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 806: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 807: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
808: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
809: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
810: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
811: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
812: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
813: <p>
814:
1.388 tom 815: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
816: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
817: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 818: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 819: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
820: <p>
821:
1.385 mickey 822: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 823: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 824: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 825: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
826: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 827: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
828: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 829: and an excellent
830: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
831: If you want to see what happened previously, check
832: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
833: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
834: <p>
835:
1.382 pedro 836: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 837: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 838: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 839: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 840: <p>
841:
1.378 aanriot 842: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
843: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 844: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 845: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
846: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
847: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
848: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 849: <p>
850:
1.375 grunk 851: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
852: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 853: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 854: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
855: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
856: <p>
857:
1.374 grunk 858: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
859: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 860: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 861: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
862: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
863: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
864: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
865: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
866: <p>
867:
1.371 deraadt 868: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
869: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 870: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 871: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
872: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
873: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
874: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
875: He demonstrated how companies can easily
876: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
877: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
878: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
879: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
880: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
881: <p>
882:
1.366 martin 883: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
884: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
885: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
886: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
887: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
888: CDs and shirts.
889: <p>
890:
1.365 mcbride 891: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
892: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
893: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
894: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
895: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
896: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
897: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
898: <br>
899: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
900: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
901: <p>
902:
1.362 reyk 903: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
904: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
905: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
906: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
907: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
908: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
909: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
910: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
911: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
912: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
913: <p>
914:
1.358 mcbride 915: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
916: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
917: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
918: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
919: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
920: <p>
921:
1.357 henning 922: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
923: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
924: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
925: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
926: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
927: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
928: <p>
929:
1.384 tom 930: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 931: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 932: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 933: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
934: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
935: packages work in front of about 30 people.
936: <p>
937:
1.353 henning 938: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
939: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 940: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 941: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
942: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
943: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
944: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 945: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 946: <p>
947:
1.352 henning 948: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
949: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 950: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 951: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
952: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
953: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
954: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
955: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
956: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
957: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
958: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
959: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
960: available if you couldn't make it there.
961: <p>
962:
1.589 aanriot 963:
964: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
965: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
966: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
967: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
968: <p>
969:
1.350 marius 970: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
971: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 972: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 973: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
974: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
975: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
976: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
977: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 978: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 979: <p>
980:
1.585 aanriot 981: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 982: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
983: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 984: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 985: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 986: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 987: <p>
988:
1.337 deraadt 989: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
990: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 991: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 992: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
993: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 994: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 995: source firewalls.
996: <p>
997:
1.317 henning 998: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
999: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1000: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1001: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1002: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1003: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1004: <p>
1005:
1.312 deraadt 1006: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1007: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1008: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1009: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1010: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1011: <p>
1012:
1.319 saad 1013: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1014: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1015: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1016: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.310 mickey 1019: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1020: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1021: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1022: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1023: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1024: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1025: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1026: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1027: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1028:
1.308 deraadt 1029: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1030: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1031: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1032: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1033: talks. Topics included
1034: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1035: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1036: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1037: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1038: <p>
1039:
1.304 saad 1040: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1041: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1042: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1043: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1044: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1045: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1046: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1047: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1048: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1049: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1050: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1051: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1052: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1053: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1054: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1055: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1056: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1057: <p>
1.301 saad 1058: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1059: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1060: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1061: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1062: <p>
1063: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1064: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1065: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1066: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1067: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1068: <p>
1.293 saad 1069: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1070: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1071: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1072: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1073: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1074: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1075: french translation team.<br>
1076: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1077: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1078: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1079: available.<br>
1080: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1081: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1082: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1083: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1084: </ul>
1.293 saad 1085:
1.296 mcbride 1086: <h3>2004</h3>
1087:
1088: <ul>
1.287 henning 1089: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1090: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1091: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1092: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1093: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1094: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1095: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1096: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1097: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1098: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1099: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1100: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1101: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1103: driver.
1104: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1105:
1.286 kevlo 1106: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1107: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1108: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1109: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1110: <p>
1111:
1.285 deraadt 1112: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1113: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1114: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1115: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1116: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1117: <p>
1118:
1.283 saad 1119: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1120: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1121: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1122: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1123: meeting of the
1124: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1125: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1126: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1127: <p>
1128:
1.282 henning 1129: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1130: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1131: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1132: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1133: two days, on bgpd
1134: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1135: ntpd
1136: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1137: and signal handlers
1138: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1139: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.275 deraadt 1142: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1143: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1144: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1145: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1146: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1147: Room B-02 of the
1148: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1149: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1150: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1151: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1152: The talk was also given the following day at the
1153: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1154: <p>
1155:
1.271 henning 1156: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1157: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1158: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1159: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1160: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1161: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1162: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1163: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1164: <p>
1165:
1166: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1167: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1168: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1169: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1170: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1171: <p>
1172:
1.276 deraadt 1173: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1174: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1175: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1176: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1177: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1181: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1182: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1183: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1184: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1185: <p>
1186:
1187: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1188: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1189: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1190: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1191: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1192: <p>
1193:
1.268 krw 1194: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1195: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1196: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1197: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1198: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1199: <p>
1200:
1.375 grunk 1201: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1202: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1203: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1204: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1205: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1206: <p>
1207:
1208: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1209: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1210: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1211: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1212: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1213: <p>
1214:
1.265 wvdputte 1215: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1216: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1217: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1218: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1219: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1220: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1221: event."
1222: <br>
1223: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1224: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1225: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1226: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1227: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1228: <br>
1229: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1230: <p>
1231:
1.262 henning 1232: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1233: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1234: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1235: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1236: Henning's slides from his talks about
1237: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1238: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1239: are available.
1240: <p>
1241:
1.261 deraadt 1242: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1243: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1244: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1245: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1246: newly extended version of the
1247: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1248: For more information, see this
1249: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1250: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1251: <p>
1252:
1253:
1.257 saad 1254: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1255: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1256: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1257: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1258: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1259: <p>
1260:
1261: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1262: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1263: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1264: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1265: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1266: <p>
1267:
1.254 xsa 1268: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1269: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1270: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1271: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1272: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1273: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1274: a basic talk about pf.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.248 deraadt 1277: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1278: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1279: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1280: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1281: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1282: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1283: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1284: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1285: <p>
1286:
1.247 canacar 1287: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1288: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1289: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1290: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1291: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1292: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1293: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1294: projects were discussed.<br>
1295: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1296: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1297: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1298: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1299: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1300: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1301: <p>
1302:
1.242 henning 1303: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1304: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1305: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1306: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1307: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1308: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1309: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1310: and systrace
1.263 saad 1311: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1312: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1313: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1314: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1315: <p>
1316:
1.240 espie 1317: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1318: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1319: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1320: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1321: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1322: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1323: <p>
1324:
1325: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1326: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1327: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1328: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1329: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1330: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1331: <p>
1332: </ul>
1333:
1.188 henning 1334: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1335:
1336: <ul>
1.232 jose 1337: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1338: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1339: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1340: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1341: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1342: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1343: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1344: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1345: <p>
1.232 jose 1346:
1.228 jose 1347: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1348: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1349: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1350: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1351: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1352: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1353: with OpenBSD PF.
1354: <p>
1355:
1356: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1357: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1358: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1359: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1360: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1361: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1362: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1363: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1364: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1365: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1366: slides in PDF format </a>
1367: (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 1368: <p>
1369:
1.227 jose 1370: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1371: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1372: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1373: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1374: <p>
1375:
1376: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1377: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1378: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1379: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1380: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1381: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1382: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1383: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1384: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1385: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1386: in Internet worm defenses.
1387: <p>
1388:
1.224 miod 1389: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1390: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1391: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1392: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1393: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1394: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1395: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1396: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1397: OpenBSD.
1398: <p>
1399:
1400: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1401: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1402: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1403: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1407: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1408: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1409: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1410: <p>
1411:
1.219 jose 1412: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1413: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1414: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1415: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1416: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1417: <p>
1418:
1.218 jose 1419: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1420: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1421: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1422: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1423: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1424: <p>
1425:
1.214 henning 1426: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1427: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1428: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1429: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1430: <p>
1431:
1.213 jose 1432: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1433: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1434: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1435: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1436: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1437: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1438: <p>
1439:
1.211 jose 1440: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1441: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1442: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1443: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1447: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1448: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1449: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1450: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1451: <p>
1452:
1.209 wvdputte 1453: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1454: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1455: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1456: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1457: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1458:
1.202 jason 1459: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1460: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1461: Conference</a></strong>,
1462: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1463: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1464: <ul>
1.216 jose 1465: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1466: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1467: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1468: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1469: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1470: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1471: </ul>
1472: <p>
1473:
1.216 jose 1474: <li><strong>
1475: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1476: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1477: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1478: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1479: <p>
1480:
1.216 jose 1481: <li><strong>
1482: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1483: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1484: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1485: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1486: <p>
1487:
1.216 jose 1488: <li><strong>
1489: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1490: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1491: 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 1492: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1493: <p>
1494:
1.216 jose 1495: <li><strong>
1496: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1497: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1498: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1499: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1500: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1501: user groups.
1502: <p>
1503:
1.236 jose 1504: <li><strong>
1505: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1506: Group</a></strong>,
1507: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1508: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1509: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1510: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1511: <p>
1512:
1.216 jose 1513: <li><strong>
1514: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1515: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1516: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1517: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1518: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1519: <p>
1520:
1.216 jose 1521: <li><strong>
1522: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1523: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1524: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1525: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1526: <p>
1.236 jose 1527: </ul>
1.185 miod 1528:
1.161 millert 1529: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1530:
1531: <ul>
1532: <li><strong>
1533: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1534: Congress</a></strong>,
1535: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1536: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1537: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1538: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1539: <p>
1.177 jason 1540:
1.216 jose 1541: <li><strong>
1542: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1543: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1544: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1545: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1546: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1547: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1548: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1549: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1550: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1551: <p>
1.178 pb 1552:
1.216 jose 1553: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1554: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1555: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1556: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1557: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1558: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1559: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1560: <p>
1561:
1.216 jose 1562: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1563: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1564: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1565: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1566: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1567: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1568: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1569: <p>
1570:
1571: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1572: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1573: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1574: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1575: Niels Provos presented his
1576: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1577: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1578: <p>
1.172 miod 1579:
1.216 jose 1580: <li><strong>
1581: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1582: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1583: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1584: <p>
1585:
1.216 jose 1586: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1587: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1588: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1589: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1590: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1591: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1592: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1593: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1594: <p>
1.168 miod 1595:
1.216 jose 1596: <li><strong>
1597: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1598: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1599: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1600: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1601: are available.
1.161 millert 1602: <p>
1603:
1.216 jose 1604: <li><strong>
1605: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1606: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1607: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1608: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1609: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1610: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1611: <p>
1612:
1.216 jose 1613: <li><strong>
1614: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1615: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1616: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1617: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1618: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1619: <p>
1.236 jose 1620: </ul>
1.164 millert 1621:
1.152 jakob 1622: <h3>2001</h3>
1623:
1.236 jose 1624: <ul>
1.216 jose 1625: <li><strong>
1626: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1627: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1628: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1629: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1630: <p>
1631:
1.216 jose 1632: <li><strong>
1633: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1634: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1635: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1636: <p>
1637:
1.158 deraadt 1638: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1640: 2001</a></strong>,
1641: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1642: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1643: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1644: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1645: <p>
1646:
1.216 jose 1647: <li><strong>
1648: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1649: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1650: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1651: <p>
1652:
1.201 deraadt 1653: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1654: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1655: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1656: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1657:
1.150 wvdputte 1658: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1659: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1660: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1661: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1662: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1663: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1664: <p>
1.137 aaron 1665:
1666: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1667: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1668: Conference</a></strong>,
1669: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1670: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1671: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1672: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1673: <p>
1674:
1675: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1676: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1677: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1678: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1679: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1680: <p>
1681:
1682: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1683: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1684: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1685: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1686: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1687: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1688: <p>
1689:
1690: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1691: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1692: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1693: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1694: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1695: <p>
1696:
1697: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1698: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1699: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1700: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1701: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1702: security community.
1703: <p>
1704:
1705: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1706: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1707: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1708: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1709: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1710: <p>
1711:
1712: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1713: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1714: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1715: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1716: <p>
1.236 jose 1717: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1718:
1.132 louis 1719: <h3>2000</h3>
1720:
1.236 jose 1721: <ul>
1.132 louis 1722: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1723: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1724: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1725: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1726: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1727: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1728: <p>
1729:
1730: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1731: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1732: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1733: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1734: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1735: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1736: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1737: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1741: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1742: 2000</a></strong>,
1743: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1744: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1745: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1746: <p>
1.4 millert 1747:
1.132 louis 1748: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1750: Summit</a></strong>,
1751: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1752: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1753: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1754: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1755:
1756: <ul>
1.236 jose 1757: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1758: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1759: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1760: </ul>
1.4 millert 1761: <p>
1.132 louis 1762:
1.7 deraadt 1763: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1764: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1765: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1766: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1767: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1768: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1769: mind (drinks afterwards).
1770: <p>
1771:
1.216 jose 1772: <li><strong>
1773: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1774: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1775: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1776: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1777: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1778:
1.132 louis 1779: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1780: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1781: Revolution</a></strong>,
1782: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1783: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1784: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1785: <p>
1786:
1.132 louis 1787: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1789: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1790: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1791: <ul>
1.236 jose 1792: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1793: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1794: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1795: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1796: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1797: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1798: <p>
1.132 louis 1799:
1.10 provos 1800: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1801: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1802: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1803: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1804: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1805: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1806: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1807: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1808: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1809: <br>
1810: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1811: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1812: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1813:
1.132 louis 1814: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1815: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1816: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1817: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1818: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1819: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1820: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1821: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1822: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1823: and spoke about
1824: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1825: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1826: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1827: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1828: <p>
1.132 louis 1829:
1.6 deraadt 1830: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1831: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1832: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1833: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1834: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1835: <br>
1836: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1837: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1838: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1839: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1840:
1.216 jose 1841: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1842: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1843: Conference.</a></strong>,
1844: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1845: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1846: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1847: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1848: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1849: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1850: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1851: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1852: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1853: <ul>
1854:
1855: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1856: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1857: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1858: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1859: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1860:
1861: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1862: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1863: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1864: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1865: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1866:
1.132 louis 1867: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1868: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1869: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1870: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1871: <p>
1872:
1.132 louis 1873: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1874: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1875: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1876: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1877: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1878: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1879: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1880: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1881:
1.132 louis 1882: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1883: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1884: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1885: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1886: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1887: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1888: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1889: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1890: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1891:
1.17 deraadt 1892: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1893: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1894: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1895: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1896: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1897: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1898: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1899: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1900: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1901:
1.23 niklas 1902: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1903: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1904: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1905: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1906: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1907: efforts.
1908: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1909: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1910: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1911: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1912: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1913: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1914:
1.132 louis 1915: <li><strong>
1916: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1917: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
1918: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 1919: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 1920: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
1921: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
1922: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 1923: <p>
1.23 niklas 1924:
1.31 deraadt 1925: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1926: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 1927: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
1928: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 1929: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 1930: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
1931: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
1932: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
1933: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 1934: <p>
1.31 deraadt 1935:
1.201 deraadt 1936: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 1937: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1938: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
1939: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
1940: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
1941: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 1942: <p>
1.236 jose 1943: </ul>
1.33 niklas 1944:
1.132 louis 1945: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 1946:
1.236 jose 1947: <ul>
1.216 jose 1948: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
1949: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1950: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 1951: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 1952: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 1953: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
1954: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 1955: <p>
1956:
1.216 jose 1957: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 1958: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 1959: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
1960: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1961: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
1962: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
1963: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
1964: There were many other OpenBSD
1965: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 1966: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 1967:
1968: <ul>
1969: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 1970: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 1971: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 1972: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1973: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 1974: </ul>
1975: <p>
1976:
1977: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1978: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 1979: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 1980: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
1981: <p>
1982:
1983: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1984: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 1985: Software '99</a></strong>,
1986: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 1987: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 1988: <a
1.375 grunk 1989: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 1990: <p>
1991:
1992: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1993: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 1994: 1999</a></strong>,
1995: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1996: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
1997: developers from the east coast attended as well.
1998: <p>
1999:
1.236 jose 2000: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2001: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2002: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2003: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2004: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2005: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2006: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2007: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2008: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2009: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2010: conference in Stockholm.
2011: <p>
2012:
2013: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2014: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2015: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2016: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2017: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2018: coordinated.
2019: <p>
2020:
2021: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2022: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2023: Security</a></strong>,
2024: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2025: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2026: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2027: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2028: significant security roles.
2029: <p>
2030:
2031: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2032: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2033: meeting</a></strong>,
2034: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2035: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2036: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2037: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2038: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2039: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2040: <p>
1.45 jason 2041:
1.132 louis 2042: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2043: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2044: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2045: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2046: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2047: <p>
1.132 louis 2048:
1.236 jose 2049: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2050: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2051: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2052: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2053: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2054: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2055: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2056: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2057: June.)
1.132 louis 2058: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2059: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2060: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2061:
1.375 grunk 2062: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2063: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2064: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2065: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2066: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2067: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2068: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2069: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2070: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2071: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2072: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2074: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2075: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2076: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2077: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2078: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2079: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2080: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2081: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2082: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2083: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2084: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2085: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2086: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2087: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2088: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2089: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2090:
1.51 deraadt 2091: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2092: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2093: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2094: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2095: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2096: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2097: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2098: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2099: <p>
2100:
1.53 jakob 2101: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2102: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2103: meeting</a></strong>,
2104: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2105: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2106: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2107: <p>
2108:
1.132 louis 2109: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2110: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2111: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2112: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2113: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2114: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2115: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2116: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2117: <p>
1.236 jose 2118: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2119:
1.132 louis 2120: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2121:
1.236 jose 2122: <ul>
1.132 louis 2123: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2124: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2125: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2126: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2127: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2128: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2129: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2130: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2131: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2132: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2133: <p>
2134:
1.236 jose 2135: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2136: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2137: Conference</a></strong>,
2138: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2139: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2140: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2141: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2142: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2143: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2144: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2145: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2146: <br>
2147: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2148: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2149: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2150: <p>
2151:
1.73 deraadt 2152: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2153: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2154: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2155: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2156: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2157: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2158: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2159: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2160: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2161:
1.236 jose 2162: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2163: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2164: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2165: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2166: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2167: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2168: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2169: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2170:
1.80 deraadt 2171: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2172: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2173: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2174: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2175: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2176: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2177: <p>
2178:
1.93 louis 2179: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2180: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2181: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2182: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2183: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2184: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2185: <p>
2186:
1.216 jose 2187: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2188: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2189: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2190: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2191: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2192: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2193: <p>
2194:
1.236 jose 2195: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2196: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2197: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2198: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2199: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2200: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2201: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2202: <br>
2203: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2204: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2205: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2206: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2207: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2208:
1.236 jose 2209: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2210: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2211: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2212: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2213: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2214: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2215: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2216: <p>
2217:
1.236 jose 2218: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2219: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2220: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2221: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2222: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2223: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2224: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2225: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2226: <br>
2227: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2228: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2229: <p>
2230:
1.105 wvdputte 2231: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2232: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2233: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2234: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2235: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2236: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2237: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2238: <br>
1.132 louis 2239: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2240: <p>
1.236 jose 2241: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2242:
1.132 louis 2243: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2244:
1.236 jose 2245: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2246: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2247: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2248: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2249: Niels held a
2250: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2251: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2252: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2253: <p>
1.132 louis 2254:
1.236 jose 2255: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2256: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2257: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2258: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2259: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2260: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2261:
1.236 jose 2262: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2263: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2264: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2265: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2266: <br>
2267: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2268: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2269: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2270: <p>
2271:
1.125 deraadt 2272: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2273: <a
2274: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2275: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2276: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2277: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2278: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2279:
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