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1.236 jose 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
18: OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
19: give papers, and organize "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
20: This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet
1.165 ian 21: like-minded people.
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1.78 louis 39: <h2>Future events:</h2>
1.132 louis 40:
1.588 espie 41: <h3>2007</h3>
42:
43: <ul>
1.603 fkr 44: <p>
45:
1.599 mbalmer 46: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
47: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
48: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
49: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
50: run by the usual suspects.
51: <p>
52:
1.614 deraadt 53: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
54: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
55: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
56: 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.
57: <p>
58:
1.621 wvdputte 59: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
60: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
61: </strong>,
62: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
63: There will be presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.663 deraadt 64: run by the usual suspects. NOTE: Peter Hansteen's PF tutorial is now on offer at Linuxtag, get it while it's hot!
1.621 wvdputte 65: <p>
66:
1.637 martin 67: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
68: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
69: </strong>,
70: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
71: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl and the usual
72: suspects.
73: <p>
74:
1.641 ajacouto 75: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
76: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
77: </strong>,
78: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
79: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting in
80: Stockholm.
81: <p>
1.640 wvdputte 82:
1.617 wvdputte 83: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
84: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
85: </strong>,
86: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
87: This open air event wil have a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
88: This year you can actually fly in with your private jet as it's held at
89: the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt.
90: <p>
1.614 deraadt 91:
1.620 wvdputte 92: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
93: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
94: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
95: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
96: run by the usual suspects.
97: <p>
98:
1.612 mk 99: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
100: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
1.621 wvdputte 101: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 102: Marc Balmer will give a talk "Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD".<br>
103: Pierre-Yves Ritschard will give a talk "Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated".<br>
1.660 claudio 104: Claudio Jeker will give a talk "Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform".<br>
1.656 mbalmer 105: Peter Hansteen will offer "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
1.652 mbalmer 106: There will be an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
1.621 wvdputte 107: <p>
108:
109: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
110: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
111: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
112: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
1.612 mk 113: There will be developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
114: run by the usual suspects.
115: <p>
116:
1.647 mbalmer 117: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
118: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
119: Oct 20 - 21, 2007, Goztepe Campus Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br>
120: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.
121: <p>
122:
1.664 michele 123: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
124: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
125: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
126: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
127: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
128: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
129: <p>
130:
1.588 espie 131: </ul>
132:
1.597 mbalmer 133: <hr>
134:
135: <h2>Past events:</h2>
136:
1.616 wvdputte 137: <h3>2007</h3>
138: <ul>
1.658 reyk 139:
1.666 ! michele 140: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
! 141: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
! 142: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
! 143: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
! 144: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
! 145: <p>
! 146:
! 147: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
! 148: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
! 149: 2007</a></strong>,
! 150: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
! 151: There was a
! 152: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
! 153: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
! 154: suspects.
! 155: <p>
! 156:
1.665 mbalmer 157: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
158: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
159: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
160: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
161: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
162: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
163: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchroneous I/O".<br>
164: Also present was Pedro Martelleto.
165: <p>
166:
1.658 reyk 167: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
168: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
169: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
170: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
171: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
172: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
173: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
174: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
175: <p>
176:
1.651 fkr 177: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
178: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
179: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
180: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 181: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
182: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 183: <p>
1.650 deraadt 184:
185: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
186: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
187: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
188: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
189: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
190: <p>
191:
1.645 ray 192: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
193: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
194: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
195: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
196: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
197: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 198: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
199: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
200: are available.
1.645 ray 201: <p>
202:
1.638 grunk 203: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
204: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
205: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
206: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
207: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 208: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 209: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
210: <p>
211:
1.635 tom 212: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
213: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
214: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
215: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
216: at the annual spring meeting of the
217: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
218: <p>
219:
1.627 mcbride 220: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
221: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
222: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 223: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
224: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
225: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 226: 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 227: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
228: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 229: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
230: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 231: 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".
232: <p>
233:
1.622 fkr 234: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
235: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
236: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 237: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 238: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 239: Felix gave a talk titled
240: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
241: <p>
242:
1.619 wvdputte 243: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
244: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
245: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
246: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
247: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
248: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
249: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
250: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 251:
252: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
253: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
254: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
255: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
256: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
257: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 258: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
259: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 260: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
261: <p>
262:
263: </ul>
264:
1.445 martin 265: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 266: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 267:
1.588 espie 268: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 269: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
270: Berlin</a></strong>,
271: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 272: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 273: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 274: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 275: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
276: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 277: <p>
278:
1.594 mbalmer 279: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
280: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
281: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 282: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 283: <p>
284:
1.515 tom 285: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
286: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 287: 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 288: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 289: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
290: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 291: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 292: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 293: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 294: <p>
1.535 deraadt 295: <ul>
1.581 claudio 296: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
297: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 298: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
299: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 300: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 301: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
302: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 303: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 304: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
305: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
306: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 307: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
308: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 309: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 310: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
311: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 312: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 313: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 314: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
315: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
316: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 317: stuff.
318: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 319:
1.575 reyk 320: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
321: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
322: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
323: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
324: as a reference project for secure software.
325: <p>
326:
1.583 henning 327: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
328: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
329: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
330: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
331: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
332: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
333: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
334: <p>
335:
1.565 krw 336: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
337: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
338: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
339: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.567 pedro 340: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk
341: (<a href="http://www2.par.inf.puc-rio.br/~pedro/conisli-html/">slides</a>).
1.565 krw 342: <p>
343:
1.559 jason 344: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
345: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
346: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
347: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
348: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 349: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 350: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 351: <ul>
352: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 353: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 354: <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 355: <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>]
356: <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 357: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
358: </ul>
359: <p>
360:
1.556 fgsch 361: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
362: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
363: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 364: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
365: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 366: <p>
367:
1.589 aanriot 368: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
369: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
370: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
371: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
372: vendors to open up their documentation.
373: <p>
374:
1.553 grunk 375: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
376: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
377: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
378: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
379: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
380: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
381: and some other volunteers.
382: <p>
383:
1.550 henning 384: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
385: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
386: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
387: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
388: <p>
389:
1.547 aanriot 390: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
391: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
392: 2006</a></strong>,
393: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
394: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
395: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
396: <p>
397:
1.546 mcbride 398: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
399: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
400: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
401: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
402: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
403: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
404: and
405: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
406: <p>
407:
1.532 wvdputte 408: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
409: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
410: </a></strong>,
411: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
412: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
413: <p>
414:
1.528 wvdputte 415: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
416: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
417: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
418: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
419: <p>
420:
1.525 wvdputte 421: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
422: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
423: </strong>,
424: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
425: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
426: <p>
427:
1.521 fkr 428: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
429: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
430: </strong>,
431: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
432: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
433: <p>
434:
1.518 tedu 435: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
436: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
437: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
438: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
439: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
440: <p>
441:
442: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
443: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
444: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 445: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
446: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 447: <p>
1.475 deraadt 448:
1.510 wvdputte 449: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
450: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
451: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
452: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Alexandre, Matthieu and
453: Serge Basterot.
454: <p>
455:
1.508 wvdputte 456: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
457: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
458: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
459: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 460: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 461: Tim Kornau.
462: <p>
463:
1.507 mbalmer 464: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
465: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
466: </strong>,
467: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
468: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
469: <p>
470:
1.506 deraadt 471: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 472: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 473: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
474: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
475: gave a talk
476: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
477: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
478: and live demonstration on redundant failover
479: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
480: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
481: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
482: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
483: <p>
484:
1.502 mbalmer 485: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
486: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
487: </strong>
488: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
489: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 490: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 491: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
492: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
493: <p>
494:
1.500 deraadt 495: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
496: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
497: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 498: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
499: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 500: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
501: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
502: <p>
503:
1.589 aanriot 504: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
505: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
506: </strong>,
507: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
508: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
509: <p>
510:
1.585 aanriot 511: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 512: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
513: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 514: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 515: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 516: <p>
517:
1.491 bernd 518: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
519: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
520: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
521: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
522: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
523: PF tutorial</a>.
524: <p>
525:
1.490 reyk 526: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
527: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
528: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
529: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
530: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
531: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
532: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
533: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
534: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
535: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
536: <p>
537:
1.489 bernd 538: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
539: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
540: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
541: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
542: the overall system and its great features.
543: <p>
544:
1.592 claudio 545: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 546: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
547: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
548: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
549: <p>
550:
1.592 claudio 551: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 552: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
553: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
554: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
555: <ul>
556: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
557: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 558: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 559: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
560: distributions...
561: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
562: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 563: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 564: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 565: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
566: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
567: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
568: how full redundancy can be achieved.
569: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 570: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
571: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
572: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
573: </ul>
574: <br>
575: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 576: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 577: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
578: <br>
579: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
580: usual suspects.
581: <p>
582:
1.486 mickey 583: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
584: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
585: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
586: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 587: (<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 588: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
589: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
590: <p>
591:
1.484 mbalmer 592: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
593: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
594: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
595: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
596: talk. There is a
597: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
598: <p>
599:
1.478 mbalmer 600: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
601: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
602: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
603: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
604: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
605: well received.
606: <br>
607: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
608: and we could draw a lot of attention.
609: <p>
610:
1.479 deraadt 611: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
612: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
613: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
614: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 615: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
616: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
617: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 618: only).
619: <p>
620:
1.475 deraadt 621: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
622: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
623: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
624: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
625: Jason Dixon presented
626: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
627: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
628: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
629: <br>
630: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
631: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
632: <p>
633:
634: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
635: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
636: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
637: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
638: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
639: <br>
640: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
641: on sale.
642: <p>
643:
1.469 tom 644: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
645: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
646: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
647: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
648: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
649: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
650: Peter N. M. Hansteen
651: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
652: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
653: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
654: drivers for OpenBSD".
655: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
656: <p>
657:
1.459 henning 658: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
659: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
660: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
661: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
662: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
663: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
664: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
665: <p>
666:
1.457 wvdputte 667: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
668: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
669: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
670: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 671: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 672: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
673: BSD dinner. More details and
674: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 675: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 676: <p>
677:
678: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
679: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
680: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
681: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
682: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
683: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
684: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
685: <p>
1.455 grunk 686:
1.456 henning 687: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
688: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
689: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
690: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
691: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
692: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
693: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
694: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
695: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
696: <p>
697:
1.455 grunk 698: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
699: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
700: </strong>,
701: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
702: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
703: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
704: <p>
705: </ul>
706:
1.296 mcbride 707: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 708:
709: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 710:
1.445 martin 711: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
712: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
713: Berlin</a></strong>,
714: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
715: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
716: <p>
717:
1.585 aanriot 718: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 719: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
720: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
721: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 722: <p>
723:
1.435 matthieu 724: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
725: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
726: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
727: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
728: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 729: event.
1.444 grunk 730: The program included a
731: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 732: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
733: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 734: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
735: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 736: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 737: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 738: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 739: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 740: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 741: <p>
1.435 matthieu 742: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
743: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
744: <p>
745:
1.434 bernd 746: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
747: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
748: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
749: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
750: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
751: <p>
752:
1.441 niallo 753: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
754: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
755: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
756: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
757: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
758: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
759: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
760: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
761: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
762: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
763: scripts.
764: <p>
765:
1.424 mbalmer 766: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
767: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
768: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 769: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
770: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
771: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 772: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 773: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 774: talks, including
775: <ul>
776: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
777: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
778: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
779: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
780: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
781: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 782: <p>
783:
784: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
785: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
786: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 787: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 788: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
789: <p>
790:
1.418 djm 791: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
792: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
793: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
794: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
795: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
796: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
797: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 798: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
799: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
800: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 801: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
802: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
803: <p>
804:
1.415 aanriot 805: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
806: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
807: 2005</a></strong>,
808: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
809: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
810: help of Thierry Thomas.
811: <p>
812:
1.420 deraadt 813: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
814: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
815: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
816: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
817: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
818: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
819: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
820: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
821: registration was mandatory.<br>
822: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 823: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 824: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
825: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
826: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 827: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 828: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
829: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
830: mechanism.
831: <p>
832:
1.414 bernd 833: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
834: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
835: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
836: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
837: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
838: <p>
839:
840: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
841: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
842: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
843: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
844: <p>
845:
1.410 wvdputte 846: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 847: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 848: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 849: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 850: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 851: <p>
852:
853: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
854: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
855: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
856: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 857: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 858: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
859: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
860: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
861: installed on your computer.
862: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 863: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 864: <p>
865:
1.404 wvdputte 866: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
867: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 868: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 869: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
870: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 871: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 872: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
873: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
874: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
875: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
876: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
877: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
878: <p>
879:
880: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
881: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
882: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
883: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
884: <p>
885:
1.403 henning 886: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
887: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 888: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 889: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
890: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
891: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
892: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
893: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
894: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
895: <p>
896:
1.388 tom 897: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
898: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
899: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 900: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 901: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
902: <p>
903:
1.385 mickey 904: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 905: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 906: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 907: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
908: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 909: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
910: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 911: and an excellent
912: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
913: If you want to see what happened previously, check
914: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
915: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
916: <p>
917:
1.382 pedro 918: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 919: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 920: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 921: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 922: <p>
923:
1.378 aanriot 924: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
925: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 926: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 927: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
928: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
929: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
930: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 931: <p>
932:
1.375 grunk 933: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
934: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 935: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 936: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
937: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
938: <p>
939:
1.374 grunk 940: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
941: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 942: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 943: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
944: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
945: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
946: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
947: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
948: <p>
949:
1.371 deraadt 950: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
951: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 952: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 953: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
954: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
955: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
956: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
957: He demonstrated how companies can easily
958: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
959: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
960: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
961: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
962: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
963: <p>
964:
1.366 martin 965: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
966: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
967: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
968: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
969: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
970: CDs and shirts.
971: <p>
972:
1.365 mcbride 973: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
974: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
975: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
976: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
977: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
978: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
979: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
980: <br>
981: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
982: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
983: <p>
984:
1.362 reyk 985: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
986: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
987: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
988: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
989: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
990: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
991: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
992: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
993: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
994: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
995: <p>
996:
1.358 mcbride 997: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
998: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
999: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1000: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1001: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1002: <p>
1003:
1.357 henning 1004: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1005: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1006: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1007: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1008: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1009: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1010: <p>
1011:
1.384 tom 1012: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1013: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1014: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1015: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1016: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1017: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1018: <p>
1019:
1.353 henning 1020: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1021: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1022: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1023: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1024: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1025: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1026: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1027: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1028: <p>
1029:
1.352 henning 1030: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1031: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1032: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1033: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1034: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1035: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1036: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1037: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1038: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1039: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1040: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1041: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1042: available if you couldn't make it there.
1043: <p>
1044:
1.589 aanriot 1045:
1046: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1047: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1048: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1049: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.350 marius 1052: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1053: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1054: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1055: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1056: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1057: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1058: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1059: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1060: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1061: <p>
1062:
1.585 aanriot 1063: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1064: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1065: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1066: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1067: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1068: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1069: <p>
1070:
1.337 deraadt 1071: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1072: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1073: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1074: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1075: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1076: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1077: source firewalls.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.317 henning 1080: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1081: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1082: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1083: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1084: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1085: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1086: <p>
1087:
1.312 deraadt 1088: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1089: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1090: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1091: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1092: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1093: <p>
1094:
1.319 saad 1095: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1096: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1097: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1098: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1099: <p>
1100:
1.310 mickey 1101: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1102: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1103: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1104: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1105: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1106: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1107: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1108: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1109: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1110:
1.308 deraadt 1111: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1112: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1113: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1114: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1115: talks. Topics included
1116: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1117: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1118: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1119: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1120: <p>
1121:
1.304 saad 1122: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1123: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1124: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1125: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1126: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1127: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1128: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1129: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1130: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1131: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1132: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1133: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1134: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1135: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1136: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1137: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1138: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1139: <p>
1.301 saad 1140: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1141: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1142: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1143: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1144: <p>
1145: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1146: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1147: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1148: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1149: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1150: <p>
1.293 saad 1151: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1152: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1153: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1154: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1155: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1156: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1157: french translation team.<br>
1158: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1159: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1160: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1161: available.<br>
1162: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1163: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1164: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1165: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1166: </ul>
1.293 saad 1167:
1.296 mcbride 1168: <h3>2004</h3>
1169:
1170: <ul>
1.287 henning 1171: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1172: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1173: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1174: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1175: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1176: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1177: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1178: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1179: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1180: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1181: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1182: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1183: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1184: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1185: driver.
1186: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1187:
1.286 kevlo 1188: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1189: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1190: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1191: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1192: <p>
1193:
1.285 deraadt 1194: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1195: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1196: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1197: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1198: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1199: <p>
1200:
1.283 saad 1201: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1202: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1203: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1204: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1205: meeting of the
1206: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1207: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1208: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1209: <p>
1210:
1.282 henning 1211: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1212: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1213: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1214: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1215: two days, on bgpd
1216: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1217: ntpd
1218: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1219: and signal handlers
1220: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1221: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1222: <p>
1223:
1.275 deraadt 1224: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1225: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1226: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1227: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1228: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1229: Room B-02 of the
1230: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1231: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1232: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1233: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1234: The talk was also given the following day at the
1235: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1236: <p>
1237:
1.271 henning 1238: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1239: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1240: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1241: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1242: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1243: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1244: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1245: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1246: <p>
1247:
1248: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1249: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1250: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1251: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1252: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1253: <p>
1254:
1.276 deraadt 1255: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1256: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1257: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1258: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1259: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1260: <p>
1261:
1262: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1263: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1264: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1265: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1266: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1267: <p>
1268:
1269: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1270: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1271: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1272: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1273: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1274: <p>
1275:
1.268 krw 1276: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1277: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1278: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1279: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1280: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1281: <p>
1282:
1.375 grunk 1283: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1284: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1285: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1286: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1287: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1288: <p>
1289:
1290: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1291: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1292: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1293: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1294: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1295: <p>
1296:
1.265 wvdputte 1297: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1298: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1299: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1300: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1301: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1302: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1303: event."
1304: <br>
1305: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1306: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1307: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1308: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1309: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1310: <br>
1311: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1312: <p>
1313:
1.262 henning 1314: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1315: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1316: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1317: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1318: Henning's slides from his talks about
1319: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1320: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1321: are available.
1322: <p>
1323:
1.261 deraadt 1324: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1325: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1326: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1327: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1328: newly extended version of the
1329: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1330: For more information, see this
1331: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1332: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1333: <p>
1334:
1335:
1.257 saad 1336: <li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
1337: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1338: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1339: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1340: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1341: <p>
1342:
1343: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1344: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1345: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1346: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1347: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1348: <p>
1349:
1.254 xsa 1350: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1351: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1352: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1353: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1354: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1355: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1356: a basic talk about pf.
1357: <p>
1358:
1.248 deraadt 1359: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1360: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1361: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1362: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1364: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1365: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1366: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1367: <p>
1368:
1.247 canacar 1369: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1370: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1371: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1372: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1373: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1374: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1375: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1376: projects were discussed.<br>
1377: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1378: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1379: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1380: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1381: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1382: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1383: <p>
1384:
1.242 henning 1385: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1386: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1387: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1388: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1389: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1390: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1391: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1392: and systrace
1.263 saad 1393: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1394: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1395: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1396: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1397: <p>
1398:
1.240 espie 1399: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1400: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1401: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1402: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1403: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1404: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1405: <p>
1406:
1407: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1408: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1409: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1410: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1411: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1412: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1413: <p>
1414: </ul>
1415:
1.188 henning 1416: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1417:
1418: <ul>
1.232 jose 1419: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1420: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1421: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1422: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1423: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1424: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1425: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1426: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1427: <p>
1.232 jose 1428:
1.228 jose 1429: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1430: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1431: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1432: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1433: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1434: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1435: with OpenBSD PF.
1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1439: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1440: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1441: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1442: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1443: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1444: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1445: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1446: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1447: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1448: slides in PDF format </a>
1449: (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 1450: <p>
1451:
1.227 jose 1452: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1453: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1454: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1455: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1456: <p>
1457:
1458: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1459: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1460: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1461: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1462: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1463: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1464: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1465: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1466: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1467: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1468: in Internet worm defenses.
1469: <p>
1470:
1.224 miod 1471: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1472: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1473: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1474: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1475: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1476: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1477: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1478: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1479: OpenBSD.
1480: <p>
1481:
1482: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1483: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1484: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1485: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1486: <p>
1487:
1488: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1489: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1490: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1491: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1492: <p>
1493:
1.219 jose 1494: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1495: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1496: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1497: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1498: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1499: <p>
1500:
1.218 jose 1501: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1502: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1503: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1504: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1505: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1506: <p>
1507:
1.214 henning 1508: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1509: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1510: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1511: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1512: <p>
1513:
1.213 jose 1514: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1515: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1516: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1517: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1518: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1519: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1520: <p>
1521:
1.211 jose 1522: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1523: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1524: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1525: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1526: <p>
1527:
1528: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1529: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1530: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1531: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1532: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1533: <p>
1534:
1.209 wvdputte 1535: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1536: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1537: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1538: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1539: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1540:
1.202 jason 1541: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1542: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1543: Conference</a></strong>,
1544: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1545: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1546: <ul>
1.216 jose 1547: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1548: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1549: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1550: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1551: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1552: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1553: </ul>
1554: <p>
1555:
1.216 jose 1556: <li><strong>
1557: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1558: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1559: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1560: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1561: <p>
1562:
1.216 jose 1563: <li><strong>
1564: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1565: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1566: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1567: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1568: <p>
1569:
1.216 jose 1570: <li><strong>
1571: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1572: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1573: 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 1574: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1575: <p>
1576:
1.216 jose 1577: <li><strong>
1578: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1579: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1580: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1581: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1582: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1583: user groups.
1584: <p>
1585:
1.236 jose 1586: <li><strong>
1587: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1588: Group</a></strong>,
1589: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1590: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1591: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1592: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1593: <p>
1594:
1.216 jose 1595: <li><strong>
1596: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1597: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1598: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1599: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1600: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1601: <p>
1602:
1.216 jose 1603: <li><strong>
1604: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1605: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1606: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1607: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1608: <p>
1.236 jose 1609: </ul>
1.185 miod 1610:
1.161 millert 1611: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1612:
1613: <ul>
1614: <li><strong>
1615: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1616: Congress</a></strong>,
1617: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1618: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1619: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1620: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1621: <p>
1.177 jason 1622:
1.216 jose 1623: <li><strong>
1624: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1625: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1626: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1627: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1628: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1629: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1630: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1631: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1632: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1633: <p>
1.178 pb 1634:
1.216 jose 1635: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1636: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1637: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1638: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1639: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1640: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1641: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1642: <p>
1643:
1.216 jose 1644: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1645: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1646: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1647: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1648: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1649: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1650: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1651: <p>
1652:
1653: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1654: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1655: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1656: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1657: Niels Provos presented his
1658: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1659: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1660: <p>
1.172 miod 1661:
1.216 jose 1662: <li><strong>
1663: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1664: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1665: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1666: <p>
1667:
1.216 jose 1668: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1669: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1670: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1671: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1672: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1673: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1674: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1675: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1676: <p>
1.168 miod 1677:
1.216 jose 1678: <li><strong>
1679: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1680: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1681: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1682: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1683: are available.
1.161 millert 1684: <p>
1685:
1.216 jose 1686: <li><strong>
1687: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1688: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1689: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1690: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1691: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1692: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1693: <p>
1694:
1.216 jose 1695: <li><strong>
1696: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1697: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1698: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1699: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1700: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1701: <p>
1.236 jose 1702: </ul>
1.164 millert 1703:
1.152 jakob 1704: <h3>2001</h3>
1705:
1.236 jose 1706: <ul>
1.216 jose 1707: <li><strong>
1708: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1709: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1710: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1711: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1712: <p>
1713:
1.216 jose 1714: <li><strong>
1715: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1716: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1717: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1718: <p>
1719:
1.158 deraadt 1720: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1721: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1722: 2001</a></strong>,
1723: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1724: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1725: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1726: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1727: <p>
1728:
1.216 jose 1729: <li><strong>
1730: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1731: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1732: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1733: <p>
1734:
1.201 deraadt 1735: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1736: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1737: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1738: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1739:
1.150 wvdputte 1740: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1741: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1742: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1743: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1744: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1745: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1746: <p>
1.137 aaron 1747:
1748: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1749: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1750: Conference</a></strong>,
1751: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1752: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1753: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1754: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1755: <p>
1756:
1757: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1758: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1759: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1760: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1761: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1765: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1766: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1767: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1768: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1769: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1770: <p>
1771:
1772: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1773: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1774: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1775: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1776: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1777: <p>
1778:
1779: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1780: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1781: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1782: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1783: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1784: security community.
1785: <p>
1786:
1787: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1788: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1789: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1790: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1791: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1792: <p>
1793:
1794: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1795: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1796: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1797: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1798: <p>
1.236 jose 1799: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1800:
1.132 louis 1801: <h3>2000</h3>
1802:
1.236 jose 1803: <ul>
1.132 louis 1804: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1805: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1806: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1807: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1808: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1809: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1810: <p>
1811:
1812: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1813: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1814: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1815: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1816: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1817: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1818: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1819: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1820: <p>
1821:
1822: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1823: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1824: 2000</a></strong>,
1825: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1826: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1827: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1828: <p>
1.4 millert 1829:
1.132 louis 1830: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1831: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1832: Summit</a></strong>,
1833: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1834: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1835: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1836: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1837:
1838: <ul>
1.236 jose 1839: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1840: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1841: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1842: </ul>
1.4 millert 1843: <p>
1.132 louis 1844:
1.7 deraadt 1845: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1846: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1847: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1848: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1849: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1850: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1851: mind (drinks afterwards).
1852: <p>
1853:
1.216 jose 1854: <li><strong>
1855: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1856: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1857: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1858: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1859: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1860:
1.132 louis 1861: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1862: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1863: Revolution</a></strong>,
1864: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1865: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1866: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1867: <p>
1868:
1.132 louis 1869: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1870: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1871: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1872: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1873: <ul>
1.236 jose 1874: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1875: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1876: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1877: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1878: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1879: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1880: <p>
1.132 louis 1881:
1.10 provos 1882: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1883: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1884: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 1885: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 1886: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 1887: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 1888: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
1889: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
1890: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
1891: <br>
1892: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
1893: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
1894: <p>
1.32 deraadt 1895:
1.132 louis 1896: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1897: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1898: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
1899: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1900: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 1901: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
1902: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
1903: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
1904: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
1905: and spoke about
1906: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 1907: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 1908: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 1909: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 1910: <p>
1.132 louis 1911:
1.6 deraadt 1912: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1913: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1914: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 1915: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
1916: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
1917: <br>
1918: Christian Weisgerber gave a
1919: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
1920: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 1921: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1922:
1.216 jose 1923: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 1924: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1925: Conference.</a></strong>,
1926: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1927: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
1928: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
1929: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
1930: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
1931: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 1932: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 1933: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
1934: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
1935: <ul>
1936:
1937: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
1938: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1939: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 1940: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1941: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1942:
1943: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
1944: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 1945: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 1946: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
1947: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 1948:
1.132 louis 1949: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
1950: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1951: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 1952: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 1953: <p>
1954:
1.132 louis 1955: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1956: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 1957: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
1958: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1959: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
1960: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
1961: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 1962: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1963:
1.132 louis 1964: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1965: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
1966: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1967: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
1968: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
1969: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
1970: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
1971: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 1972: <p>
1.11 jkatz 1973:
1.17 deraadt 1974: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1975: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
1976: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1977: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
1978: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
1979: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
1980: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
1981: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 1982: <p>
1.17 deraadt 1983:
1.23 niklas 1984: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1985: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
1986: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 1987: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
1988: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 1989: efforts.
1990: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 1991: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 1992: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
1993: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
1994: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 1995: <p>
1.25 deraadt 1996:
1.132 louis 1997: <li><strong>
1998: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 1999: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
2000: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2001: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2002: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2003: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2004: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2005: <p>
1.23 niklas 2006:
1.31 deraadt 2007: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2008: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2009: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2010: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2011: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2012: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2013: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2014: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2015: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2016: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2017:
1.201 deraadt 2018: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2019: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2020: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2021: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2022: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2023: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2024: <p>
1.236 jose 2025: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2026:
1.132 louis 2027: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2028:
1.236 jose 2029: <ul>
1.216 jose 2030: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2031: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2032: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2033: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2034: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2035: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2036: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2037: <p>
2038:
1.216 jose 2039: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2040: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2041: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2042: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2043: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2044: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2045: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2046: There were many other OpenBSD
2047: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2048: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2049:
2050: <ul>
2051: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2052: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2053: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2054: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2055: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2056: </ul>
2057: <p>
2058:
2059: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2060: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2061: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2062: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2063: <p>
2064:
2065: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2066: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2067: Software '99</a></strong>,
2068: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2069: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2070: <a
1.375 grunk 2071: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2072: <p>
2073:
2074: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2075: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2076: 1999</a></strong>,
2077: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2078: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2079: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2080: <p>
2081:
1.236 jose 2082: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2083: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2084: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2085: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2086: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2087: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2088: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2089: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2090: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2091: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2092: conference in Stockholm.
2093: <p>
2094:
2095: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2096: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2097: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2098: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2099: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2100: coordinated.
2101: <p>
2102:
2103: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2104: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2105: Security</a></strong>,
2106: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2107: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2108: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2109: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2110: significant security roles.
2111: <p>
2112:
2113: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2114: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2115: meeting</a></strong>,
2116: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2117: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2118: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2119: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2120: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2121: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2122: <p>
1.45 jason 2123:
1.132 louis 2124: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2125: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2126: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2127: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2128: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2129: <p>
1.132 louis 2130:
1.236 jose 2131: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2132: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2133: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2134: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2135: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2136: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2137: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2138: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2139: June.)
1.132 louis 2140: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2141: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2142: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2143:
1.375 grunk 2144: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2145: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2146: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2147: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2148: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2149: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2150: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2151: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2152: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2153: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2154: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2155: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2156: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2157: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2158: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2159: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2160: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2161: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2162: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2163: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2164: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2165: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2166: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2167: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2168: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2169: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2170: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2171: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2172:
1.51 deraadt 2173: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2174: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2175: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2176: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2177: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2178: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2179: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2180: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2181: <p>
2182:
1.53 jakob 2183: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2184: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2185: meeting</a></strong>,
2186: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2187: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2188: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2189: <p>
2190:
1.132 louis 2191: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2192: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2193: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2194: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2195: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2196: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2197: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2198: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2199: <p>
1.236 jose 2200: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2201:
1.132 louis 2202: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2203:
1.236 jose 2204: <ul>
1.132 louis 2205: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.236 jose 2206: <a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
2207: tests & seminar</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2208: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2209: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2210: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2211: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2212: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2213: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2214: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2215: <p>
2216:
1.236 jose 2217: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
2218: <a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2219: Conference</a></strong>,
2220: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2221: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2222: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2223: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2224: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2225: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2226: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2227: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2228: <br>
2229: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2230: had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
2231: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2232: <p>
2233:
1.73 deraadt 2234: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2235: <a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2236: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2237: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2238: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2239: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2240: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2241: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2242: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2243:
1.236 jose 2244: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.216 jose 2245: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2246: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2247: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2248: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2249: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2250: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2251: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2252:
1.80 deraadt 2253: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2254: <a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98</a></strong>,
2255: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2256: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2257: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2258: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2259: <p>
2260:
1.93 louis 2261: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2262: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2263: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2264: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2265: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2266: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2267: <p>
2268:
1.216 jose 2269: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2270: <a href="http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html">O'Reilly and
2271: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2272: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2273: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2274: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2275: <p>
2276:
1.236 jose 2277: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
2278: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2279: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2280: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2281: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2282: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2283: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2284: <br>
2285: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2286: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2287: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2288: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2289: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2290:
1.236 jose 2291: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2292: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2293: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2294: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2295: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2296: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2297: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2298: <p>
2299:
1.236 jose 2300: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2301: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2302: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2303: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2304: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2305: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2306: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2307: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2308: <br>
2309: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2310: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2311: <p>
2312:
1.105 wvdputte 2313: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2314: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2315: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2316: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2317: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2318: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2319: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2320: <br>
1.132 louis 2321: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2322: <p>
1.236 jose 2323: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2324:
1.132 louis 2325: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2326:
1.236 jose 2327: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2328: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2329: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2330: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2331: Niels held a
2332: <a href="http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2333: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2334: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2335: <p>
1.132 louis 2336:
1.236 jose 2337: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2338: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2339: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.236 jose 2340: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2341: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2342: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2343:
1.236 jose 2344: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
2345: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2346: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2347: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2348: <br>
2349: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2350: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.236 jose 2351: <a href="http://www.l0pht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2352: <p>
2353:
1.125 deraadt 2354: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2355: <a
2356: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2357: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.132 louis 2358: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
2359: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2360: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2361:
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