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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:
1.700 wvdputte 46: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
47: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
48: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
49: There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim and Otto
50: <p>
51:
1.709 wvdputte 52: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
53: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
54: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany<br>
55: The *BSD projects will have an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
56: <p>
57:
1.664 michele 58: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
59: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
60: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
61: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
62: This edition is composed by one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
63: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
64: <p>
65:
1.588 espie 66: </ul>
67:
1.597 mbalmer 68: <hr>
69:
70: <h2>Past events:</h2>
71:
1.616 wvdputte 72: <h3>2007</h3>
73: <ul>
1.658 reyk 74:
1.714 ! jasper 75: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
! 76: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
! 77: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
! 78: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org
! 79: <p>
! 80:
1.713 wvdputte 81: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
82: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
83: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
84: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
85: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
86: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
87: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
88: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
89: <p>
90:
1.712 sthen 91: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
92: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
93: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
94: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
95: <p>
96:
97: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
98: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
99: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany<br>
100: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
101: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
102: <p>
103:
104: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
105: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
106: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
107: Turkey.<br>
108: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
109: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
110: OpenBSD.<br>
111: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
112: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
113: <br>
114: <p>
115:
1.708 aanriot 116: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
117: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
118: 2007</a></strong>,
119: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
120: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
121: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
122: <p>
123:
1.705 pvalchev 124: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
125: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
126: 2007</a></strong>,
127: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
128: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
129: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
130: <p>
131:
132: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
133: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
134: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
135: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
136: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
140: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
141: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
142: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
143: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
144: run by the usual suspects.
145: <p>
146:
1.689 claudio 147: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
148: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
149: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
150: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
151: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
152: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
153: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
154: <p>
155:
1.686 mbalmer 156: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
157: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
158: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
159: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
160: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 161: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 162: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
163: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 164: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
165: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
166: <p>
167:
1.685 bernd 168: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
169: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
170: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
171: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
172: <p>
173:
1.686 mbalmer 174: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
175: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
176: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
177: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
178: *BSD point of view was well represented.
179: <p>
180:
1.684 bernd 181: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
182: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
183: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
184: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
185: <p>
186:
1.682 bernd 187: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
188: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
189: </strong>,
190: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
191: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
192: <p>
193:
1.680 aanriot 194: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
195: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
196: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 197: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
198: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 199: <p>
200:
1.675 mbalmer 201: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
202: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
203: </strong>,
204: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
205: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
206: that took place in Stockholm.
207: <p>
208:
209: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
210: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
211: </strong>,
212: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
213: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 214: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
215: tutorial as well as the talk
216: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
217: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
218: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 219: <p>
220:
1.674 martin 221: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
222: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
223: </strong>,
224: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
225: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
226: and Teemu Schaabl.
227: <p>
228:
1.671 aanriot 229: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
230: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
231: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 232: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
233: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 234: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
235: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
236: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 237: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 238: <p>
239:
1.670 ray 240: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
241: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
242: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
243: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
244: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
245: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
246: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
247: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
248: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
249: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
250: <p>
251:
1.669 fkr 252: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
253: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
254: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
255: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
256: <p>
257:
1.666 michele 258: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
259: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
260: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
261: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
262: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
263: <p>
264:
265: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
266: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
267: 2007</a></strong>,
268: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
269: There was a
270: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
271: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
272: suspects.
273: <p>
274:
1.665 mbalmer 275: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
276: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
277: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
278: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
279: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
280: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 281: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
282: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 283: <p>
284:
1.658 reyk 285: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
286: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
287: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
288: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
289: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
290: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
291: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
292: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
293: <p>
294:
1.651 fkr 295: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
296: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
297: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
298: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 299: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
300: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 301: <p>
1.650 deraadt 302:
303: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
304: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
305: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
306: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
307: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
308: <p>
309:
1.645 ray 310: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
311: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
312: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
313: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
314: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
315: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 316: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
317: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
318: are available.
1.645 ray 319: <p>
320:
1.638 grunk 321: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
322: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
323: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
324: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
325: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 326: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 327: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
328: <p>
329:
1.635 tom 330: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
331: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
332: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
333: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
334: at the annual spring meeting of the
335: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
336: <p>
337:
1.627 mcbride 338: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
339: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
340: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 341: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
342: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
343: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 344: 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 345: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
346: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 347: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
348: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 349: 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".
350: <p>
351:
1.622 fkr 352: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
353: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
354: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 355: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 356: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 357: Felix gave a talk titled
358: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
359: <p>
360:
1.619 wvdputte 361: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
362: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
363: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
364: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
365: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
366: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
367: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
368: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 369:
370: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
371: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
372: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
373: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
374: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
375: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 376: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
377: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 378: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
379: <p>
380:
381: </ul>
382:
1.445 martin 383: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 384: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 385:
1.588 espie 386: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 387: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
388: Berlin</a></strong>,
389: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 390: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 391: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 392: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 393: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
394: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 395: <p>
396:
1.594 mbalmer 397: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
398: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
399: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 400: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 401: <p>
402:
1.515 tom 403: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
404: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 405: 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 406: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 407: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
408: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 409: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 410: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 411: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 412: <p>
1.535 deraadt 413: <ul>
1.581 claudio 414: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
415: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 416: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
417: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 418: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 419: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
420: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 421: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 422: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
423: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
424: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 425: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
426: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 427: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 428: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
429: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 430: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 431: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 432: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
433: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
434: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 435: stuff.
436: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 437:
1.575 reyk 438: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
439: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
440: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
441: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
442: as a reference project for secure software.
443: <p>
444:
1.583 henning 445: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
446: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
447: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
448: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
449: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
450: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
451: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
452: <p>
453:
1.565 krw 454: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
455: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
456: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
457: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 458: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 459: <p>
460:
1.559 jason 461: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
462: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
463: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
464: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
465: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 466: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 467: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 468: <ul>
469: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 470: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 471: <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 472: <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>]
473: <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 474: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
475: </ul>
476: <p>
477:
1.556 fgsch 478: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
479: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
480: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 481: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
482: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 483: <p>
484:
1.589 aanriot 485: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
486: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
487: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
488: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
489: vendors to open up their documentation.
490: <p>
491:
1.553 grunk 492: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
493: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
494: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
495: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
496: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
497: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
498: and some other volunteers.
499: <p>
500:
1.550 henning 501: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
502: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
503: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
504: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
505: <p>
506:
1.547 aanriot 507: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
508: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
509: 2006</a></strong>,
510: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
511: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
512: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
513: <p>
514:
1.546 mcbride 515: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
516: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
517: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
518: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
519: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
520: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
521: and
522: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
523: <p>
524:
1.532 wvdputte 525: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
526: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
527: </a></strong>,
528: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
529: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
530: <p>
531:
1.528 wvdputte 532: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
533: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
534: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
535: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
536: <p>
537:
1.525 wvdputte 538: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
539: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
540: </strong>,
541: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
542: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
543: <p>
544:
1.521 fkr 545: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
546: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
547: </strong>,
548: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
549: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
550: <p>
551:
1.518 tedu 552: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
553: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
554: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
555: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
556: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
557: <p>
558:
559: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
560: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
561: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 562: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
563: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 564: <p>
1.475 deraadt 565:
1.510 wvdputte 566: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
567: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
568: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 569: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
570: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 571: <p>
572:
1.508 wvdputte 573: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
574: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
575: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
576: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 577: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 578: Tim Kornau.
579: <p>
580:
1.507 mbalmer 581: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
582: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
583: </strong>,
584: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
585: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
586: <p>
587:
1.506 deraadt 588: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 589: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 590: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
591: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
592: gave a talk
593: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
594: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
595: and live demonstration on redundant failover
596: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
597: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
598: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
599: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
600: <p>
601:
1.502 mbalmer 602: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
603: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
604: </strong>
605: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
606: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 607: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 608: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
609: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
610: <p>
611:
1.500 deraadt 612: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
613: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
614: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 615: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
616: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 617: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
618: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
619: <p>
620:
1.589 aanriot 621: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
622: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
623: </strong>,
624: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
625: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
626: <p>
627:
1.585 aanriot 628: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 629: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
630: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 631: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 632: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 633: <p>
634:
1.491 bernd 635: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
636: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
637: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
638: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
639: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
640: PF tutorial</a>.
641: <p>
642:
1.490 reyk 643: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
644: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
645: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
646: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
647: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
648: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
649: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
650: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
651: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
652: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
653: <p>
654:
1.489 bernd 655: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
656: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
657: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
658: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
659: the overall system and its great features.
660: <p>
661:
1.592 claudio 662: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 663: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
664: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
665: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
666: <p>
667:
1.592 claudio 668: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 669: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
670: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
671: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
672: <ul>
673: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
674: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 675: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 676: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
677: distributions...
678: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
679: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 680: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 681: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 682: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
683: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
684: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
685: how full redundancy can be achieved.
686: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 687: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
688: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
689: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
690: </ul>
691: <br>
692: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 693: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 694: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
695: <br>
696: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
697: usual suspects.
698: <p>
699:
1.486 mickey 700: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
701: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
702: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
703: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 704: (<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 705: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
706: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
707: <p>
708:
1.484 mbalmer 709: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
710: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
711: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
712: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
713: talk. There is a
714: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
715: <p>
716:
1.478 mbalmer 717: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
718: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
719: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
720: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
721: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
722: well received.
723: <br>
724: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
725: and we could draw a lot of attention.
726: <p>
727:
1.479 deraadt 728: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
729: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
730: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
731: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 732: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
733: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
734: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 735: only).
736: <p>
737:
1.475 deraadt 738: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
739: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
740: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
741: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
742: Jason Dixon presented
743: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
744: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
745: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
746: <br>
747: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
748: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
749: <p>
750:
751: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
752: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
753: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
754: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
755: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
756: <br>
757: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
758: on sale.
759: <p>
760:
1.469 tom 761: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
762: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
763: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
764: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
765: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
766: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
767: Peter N. M. Hansteen
768: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
769: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
770: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
771: drivers for OpenBSD".
772: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
773: <p>
774:
1.459 henning 775: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
776: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
777: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
778: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
779: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
780: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
781: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
782: <p>
783:
1.457 wvdputte 784: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
785: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
786: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
787: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 788: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 789: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
790: BSD dinner. More details and
791: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 792: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 793: <p>
794:
795: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
796: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
797: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
798: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
799: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
800: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
801: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
802: <p>
1.455 grunk 803:
1.456 henning 804: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
805: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
806: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
807: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
808: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
809: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
810: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
811: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
812: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
813: <p>
814:
1.455 grunk 815: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
816: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
817: </strong>,
818: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
819: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
820: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
821: <p>
822: </ul>
823:
1.296 mcbride 824: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 825:
826: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 827:
1.445 martin 828: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
829: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
830: Berlin</a></strong>,
831: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
832: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
833: <p>
834:
1.585 aanriot 835: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 836: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
837: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
838: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 839: <p>
840:
1.435 matthieu 841: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
842: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
843: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
844: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
845: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 846: event.
1.444 grunk 847: The program included a
848: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 849: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
850: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 851: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
852: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 853: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 854: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 855: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 856: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 857: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 858: <p>
1.435 matthieu 859: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
860: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
861: <p>
862:
1.434 bernd 863: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
864: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
865: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
866: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
867: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
868: <p>
869:
1.441 niallo 870: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
871: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
872: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
873: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
874: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
875: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
876: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
877: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
878: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
879: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
880: scripts.
881: <p>
882:
1.424 mbalmer 883: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
884: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
885: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 886: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
887: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
888: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 889: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 890: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 891: talks, including
892: <ul>
893: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
894: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
895: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
896: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
897: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
898: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 899: <p>
900:
901: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
902: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
903: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 904: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 905: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
906: <p>
907:
1.418 djm 908: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
909: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
910: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
911: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
912: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
913: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
914: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 915: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
916: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
917: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 918: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
919: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
920: <p>
921:
1.415 aanriot 922: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
923: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
924: 2005</a></strong>,
925: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
926: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
927: help of Thierry Thomas.
928: <p>
929:
1.420 deraadt 930: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
931: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
932: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
933: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
934: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
935: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
936: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
937: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
938: registration was mandatory.<br>
939: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 940: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 941: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
942: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
943: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 944: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 945: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
946: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
947: mechanism.
948: <p>
949:
1.414 bernd 950: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
951: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
952: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
953: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
954: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
955: <p>
956:
957: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
958: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
959: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
960: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
961: <p>
962:
1.410 wvdputte 963: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 964: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 965: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 966: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 967: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 968: <p>
969:
970: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
971: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
972: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
973: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 974: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 975: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
976: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
977: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
978: installed on your computer.
979: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 980: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 981: <p>
982:
1.404 wvdputte 983: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
984: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 985: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 986: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
987: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 988: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 989: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
990: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
991: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
992: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
993: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
994: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
998: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
999: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1000: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
1001: <p>
1002:
1.403 henning 1003: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1004: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1005: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1006: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1007: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1008: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1009: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1010: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1011: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1012: <p>
1013:
1.388 tom 1014: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1015: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1016: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1017: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 1018: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1019: <p>
1020:
1.385 mickey 1021: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1022: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1023: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1024: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1025: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1026: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1027: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1028: and an excellent
1029: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1030: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1031: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1032: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1033: <p>
1034:
1.382 pedro 1035: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1036: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1037: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1038: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1039: <p>
1040:
1.378 aanriot 1041: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1042: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1043: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1044: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1045: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1046: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1047: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1048: <p>
1049:
1.375 grunk 1050: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1051: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1052: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1053: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1054: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1055: <p>
1056:
1.374 grunk 1057: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1058: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1059: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1060: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1061: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1062: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1063: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1064: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1065: <p>
1066:
1.371 deraadt 1067: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1068: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1069: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1070: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1071: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1072: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1073: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1074: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1075: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1076: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1077: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1078: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1079: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1080: <p>
1081:
1.366 martin 1082: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1083: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1084: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1085: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1086: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1087: CDs and shirts.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.365 mcbride 1090: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1091: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1092: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1093: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1094: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1095: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1096: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1097: <br>
1098: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1099: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1100: <p>
1101:
1.362 reyk 1102: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1103: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1104: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1105: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1106: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1107: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1108: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1109: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1110: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1111: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1112: <p>
1113:
1.358 mcbride 1114: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1115: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1116: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1117: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1118: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1119: <p>
1120:
1.357 henning 1121: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1122: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1123: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1124: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1125: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1126: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.384 tom 1129: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1130: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1131: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1132: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1133: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1134: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1135: <p>
1136:
1.353 henning 1137: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1138: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1139: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1140: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1141: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1142: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1143: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1144: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1145: <p>
1146:
1.352 henning 1147: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1148: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1149: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1150: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1151: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1152: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1153: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1154: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1155: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1156: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1157: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1158: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1159: available if you couldn't make it there.
1160: <p>
1161:
1.589 aanriot 1162:
1163: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1164: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1165: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1166: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1167: <p>
1168:
1.350 marius 1169: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1170: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1171: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1172: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1173: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1174: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1175: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1176: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1177: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1178: <p>
1179:
1.585 aanriot 1180: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1181: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1182: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1183: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1184: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1185: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1186: <p>
1187:
1.337 deraadt 1188: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1189: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1190: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1191: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1192: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1193: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1194: source firewalls.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.317 henning 1197: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1198: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1199: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1200: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1201: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1202: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1203: <p>
1204:
1.312 deraadt 1205: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1206: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1207: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1208: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1209: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1210: <p>
1211:
1.319 saad 1212: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1213: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1214: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1215: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1216: <p>
1217:
1.310 mickey 1218: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1219: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1220: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1221: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1222: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1223: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1224: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1225: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1226: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1227:
1.308 deraadt 1228: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1229: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1230: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1231: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1232: talks. Topics included
1233: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1234: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1235: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1236: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1237: <p>
1238:
1.304 saad 1239: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1240: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1241: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1242: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1243: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1244: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1245: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1246: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1247: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1248: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1249: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1250: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1251: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1252: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1253: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1254: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1255: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1256: <p>
1.301 saad 1257: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1258: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1259: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1260: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1261: <p>
1262: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1263: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1264: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1265: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1266: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1267: <p>
1.293 saad 1268: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1269: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1270: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1271: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1272: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1273: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1274: french translation team.<br>
1275: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1276: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1277: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1278: available.<br>
1279: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1280: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1281: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1282: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1283: </ul>
1.293 saad 1284:
1.296 mcbride 1285: <h3>2004</h3>
1286:
1287: <ul>
1.287 henning 1288: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1289: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1290: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1291: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1292: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1293: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1294: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1295: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1296: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1297: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1298: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1299: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1300: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1301: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1302: driver.
1303: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1304:
1.286 kevlo 1305: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1306: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1307: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1308: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1309: <p>
1310:
1.285 deraadt 1311: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1312: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1313: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1314: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1315: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1316: <p>
1317:
1.283 saad 1318: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1319: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1320: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1321: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1322: meeting of the
1323: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1324: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1325: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1326: <p>
1327:
1.282 henning 1328: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1329: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1330: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1331: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1332: two days, on bgpd
1333: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1334: ntpd
1335: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1336: and signal handlers
1337: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1338: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1339: <p>
1340:
1.275 deraadt 1341: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1342: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1343: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1344: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1345: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1346: Room B-02 of the
1347: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1348: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1349: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1350: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1351: The talk was also given the following day at the
1352: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1353: <p>
1354:
1.271 henning 1355: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1356: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1357: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1358: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1359: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1360: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1361: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1362: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1363: <p>
1364:
1365: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1366: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1367: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1368: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1369: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1370: <p>
1371:
1.276 deraadt 1372: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1373: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1374: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1375: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1376: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1377: <p>
1378:
1379: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1380: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1381: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1382: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1383: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1384: <p>
1385:
1386: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1387: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1388: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1389: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1390: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1391: <p>
1392:
1.268 krw 1393: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1394: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1395: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1396: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1397: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1398: <p>
1399:
1.375 grunk 1400: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1401: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1402: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1403: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1404: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1405: <p>
1406:
1407: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1408: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1409: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1410: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1411: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1412: <p>
1413:
1.265 wvdputte 1414: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1415: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1416: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1417: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1418: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1419: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1420: event."
1421: <br>
1422: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1423: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1424: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1425: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1426: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1427: <br>
1428: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1429: <p>
1430:
1.262 henning 1431: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1432: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1433: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1434: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1435: Henning's slides from his talks about
1436: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1437: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1438: are available.
1439: <p>
1440:
1.261 deraadt 1441: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1442: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1443: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1444: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1445: newly extended version of the
1446: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1447: For more information, see this
1448: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1449: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1450: <p>
1451:
1452:
1.680 aanriot 1453: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1454: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1455: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1456: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1457: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1458: <p>
1459:
1460: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1461: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1462: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1463: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1464: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.254 xsa 1467: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1468: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1469: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1470: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1471: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1472: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1473: a basic talk about pf.
1474: <p>
1475:
1.248 deraadt 1476: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1477: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1478: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1479: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1480: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1481: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1482: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1483: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1484: <p>
1485:
1.247 canacar 1486: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1487: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1488: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1489: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1490: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1491: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1492: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1493: projects were discussed.<br>
1494: You can view the
1.281 canacar 1495: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1496: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.281 canacar 1497: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1498: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1499: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1500: <p>
1501:
1.242 henning 1502: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1503: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1504: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1505: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1506: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1507: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1508: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1509: and systrace
1.263 saad 1510: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1511: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1512: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1513: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1514: <p>
1515:
1.240 espie 1516: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1517: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1518: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1519: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1520: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1521: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1522: <p>
1523:
1524: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1525: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1526: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1527: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1528: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1529: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1530: <p>
1531: </ul>
1532:
1.188 henning 1533: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1534:
1535: <ul>
1.232 jose 1536: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1537: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1538: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1539: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1540: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1541: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1542: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1543: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1544: <p>
1.232 jose 1545:
1.228 jose 1546: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1547: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1548: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1549: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1550: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1551: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1552: with OpenBSD PF.
1553: <p>
1554:
1555: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1556: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
1557: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1558: Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1559: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1560: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1561: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1562: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1563: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.281 canacar 1564: <a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1565: slides in PDF format </a>
1566: (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 1567: <p>
1568:
1.227 jose 1569: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1570: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1571: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1572: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1573: <p>
1574:
1575: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1576: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1577: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1578: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1579: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1580: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1581: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1582: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1583: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1584: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1585: in Internet worm defenses.
1586: <p>
1587:
1.224 miod 1588: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1589: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1590: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1591: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1592: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1593: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1594: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1595: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1596: OpenBSD.
1597: <p>
1598:
1599: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1600: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1601: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1602: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1603: <p>
1604:
1605: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1606: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1607: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1608: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1609: <p>
1610:
1.219 jose 1611: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1612: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1613: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1614: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1615: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1616: <p>
1617:
1.218 jose 1618: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1619: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1620: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1621: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1622: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1623: <p>
1624:
1.214 henning 1625: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1626: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1627: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1628: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1629: <p>
1630:
1.213 jose 1631: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1632: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1633: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1634: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1635: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1636: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1637: <p>
1638:
1.211 jose 1639: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1640: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1641: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1642: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1643: <p>
1644:
1645: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1646: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1647: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1648: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1649: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1650: <p>
1651:
1.209 wvdputte 1652: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1653: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1654: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1655: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1656: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1657:
1.202 jason 1658: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1659: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1660: Conference</a></strong>,
1661: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1662: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1663: <ul>
1.216 jose 1664: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1665: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1666: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1667: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1668: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1669: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1670: </ul>
1671: <p>
1672:
1.216 jose 1673: <li><strong>
1674: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1675: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1676: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1677: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1678: <p>
1679:
1.216 jose 1680: <li><strong>
1681: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1682: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1683: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1684: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1685: <p>
1686:
1.216 jose 1687: <li><strong>
1688: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1689: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1690: 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 1691: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1692: <p>
1693:
1.216 jose 1694: <li><strong>
1695: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1696: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1697: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1698: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1699: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1700: user groups.
1701: <p>
1702:
1.236 jose 1703: <li><strong>
1704: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1705: Group</a></strong>,
1706: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1707: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1708: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1709: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1710: <p>
1711:
1.216 jose 1712: <li><strong>
1713: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1714: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1715: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1716: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1717: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1718: <p>
1719:
1.216 jose 1720: <li><strong>
1721: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1722: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1723: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1724: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1725: <p>
1.236 jose 1726: </ul>
1.185 miod 1727:
1.161 millert 1728: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1729:
1730: <ul>
1731: <li><strong>
1732: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1733: Congress</a></strong>,
1734: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1735: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1736: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1737: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1738: <p>
1.177 jason 1739:
1.216 jose 1740: <li><strong>
1741: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1742: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1743: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1744: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1745: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1746: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1747: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1748: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1749: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1750: <p>
1.178 pb 1751:
1.216 jose 1752: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1753: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1754: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1755: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1756: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1757: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1758: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1759: <p>
1760:
1.216 jose 1761: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1762: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1763: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1764: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1765: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1766: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1767: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1771: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1772: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1773: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1774: Niels Provos presented his
1775: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1776: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1777: <p>
1.172 miod 1778:
1.216 jose 1779: <li><strong>
1780: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1781: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1782: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1783: <p>
1784:
1.216 jose 1785: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1786: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1787: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1788: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1789: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1790: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1791: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1792: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1793: <p>
1.168 miod 1794:
1.216 jose 1795: <li><strong>
1796: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1797: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1798: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1799: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1800: are available.
1.161 millert 1801: <p>
1802:
1.216 jose 1803: <li><strong>
1804: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1805: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1806: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1807: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1808: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1809: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1810: <p>
1811:
1.216 jose 1812: <li><strong>
1813: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1814: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1815: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1816: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1817: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1818: <p>
1.236 jose 1819: </ul>
1.164 millert 1820:
1.152 jakob 1821: <h3>2001</h3>
1822:
1.236 jose 1823: <ul>
1.216 jose 1824: <li><strong>
1825: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1826: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1827: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1828: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1829: <p>
1830:
1.216 jose 1831: <li><strong>
1832: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1833: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1834: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1835: <p>
1836:
1.158 deraadt 1837: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1838: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1839: 2001</a></strong>,
1840: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1841: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1842: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1843: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1844: <p>
1845:
1.216 jose 1846: <li><strong>
1847: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1848: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1849: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1850: <p>
1851:
1.201 deraadt 1852: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1853: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1854: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1855: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1856:
1.150 wvdputte 1857: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1858: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1859: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1860: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1861: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1862: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1863: <p>
1.137 aaron 1864:
1865: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1866: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1867: Conference</a></strong>,
1868: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1869: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1870: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1871: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1872: <p>
1873:
1874: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1875: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1876: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1877: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1878: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1879: <p>
1880:
1881: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1882: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1883: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1884: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1885: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1886: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1887: <p>
1888:
1889: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1890: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1891: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1892: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1893: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1894: <p>
1895:
1896: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1897: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1898: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1899: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1900: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1901: security community.
1902: <p>
1903:
1904: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1905: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1906: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1907: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1908: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1909: <p>
1910:
1911: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1912: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1913: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1914: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1915: <p>
1.236 jose 1916: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1917:
1.132 louis 1918: <h3>2000</h3>
1919:
1.236 jose 1920: <ul>
1.132 louis 1921: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1922: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1923: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1924: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1925: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1926: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1927: <p>
1928:
1929: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1930: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1931: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1932: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1933: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1934: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1935: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1936: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1937: <p>
1938:
1939: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1940: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 1941: 2000</a></strong>,
1942: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 1943: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 1944: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 1945: <p>
1.4 millert 1946:
1.132 louis 1947: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 1948: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 1949: Summit</a></strong>,
1950: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 1951: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 1952: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
1953: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
1954:
1955: <ul>
1.236 jose 1956: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 1957: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1958: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1959: </ul>
1.4 millert 1960: <p>
1.132 louis 1961:
1.7 deraadt 1962: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1963: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1964: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 1965: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
1966: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 1967: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 1968: mind (drinks afterwards).
1969: <p>
1970:
1.216 jose 1971: <li><strong>
1972: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
1973: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1974: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
1975: questions.
1.32 deraadt 1976: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1977:
1.132 louis 1978: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 1979: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 1980: Revolution</a></strong>,
1981: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 1982: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
1983: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 1984: <p>
1985:
1.132 louis 1986: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 1987: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1988: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 1989: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1990: <ul>
1.236 jose 1991: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 1992: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 1993: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 1994: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1995: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1996: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 1997: <p>
1.132 louis 1998:
1.10 provos 1999: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2000: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2001: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 2002: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2003: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2004: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2005: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2006: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2007: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2008: <br>
2009: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2010: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2011: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2012:
1.132 louis 2013: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2014: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2015: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
2016: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
2017: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2018: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2019: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2020: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2021: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2022: and spoke about
2023: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2024: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2025: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2026: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2027: <p>
1.132 louis 2028:
1.6 deraadt 2029: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2030: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2031: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 2032: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2033: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2034: <br>
2035: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2036: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2037: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2038: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2039:
1.216 jose 2040: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2041: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2042: Conference.</a></strong>,
2043: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2044: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2045: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2046: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2047: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2048: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2049: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2050: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2051: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2052: <ul>
2053:
2054: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2055: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2056: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2057: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2058: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2059:
2060: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2061: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2062: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2063: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2064: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2065:
1.132 louis 2066: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2067: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2068: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2069: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2070: <p>
2071:
1.132 louis 2072: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2074: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
2075: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2076: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2077: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2078: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2079: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2080:
1.132 louis 2081: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2082: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
2083: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2084: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2085: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2086: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2087: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2088: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2089: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2090:
1.17 deraadt 2091: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2092: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
2093: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2094: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2095: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2096: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2097: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2098: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2099: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2100:
1.23 niklas 2101: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2102: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
2103: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2104: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2105: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2106: efforts.
2107: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2108: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2109: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2110: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2111: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2112: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2113:
1.132 louis 2114: <li><strong>
2115: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2116: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
2117: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2118: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2119: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2120: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2121: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2122: <p>
1.23 niklas 2123:
1.31 deraadt 2124: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2125: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2126: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2127: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2128: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2129: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2130: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2131: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2132: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2133: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2134:
1.201 deraadt 2135: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2136: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2137: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2138: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2139: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2140: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2141: <p>
1.236 jose 2142: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2143:
1.132 louis 2144: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2145:
1.236 jose 2146: <ul>
1.216 jose 2147: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2148: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2149: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2150: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2151: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2152: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2153: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2154: <p>
2155:
1.216 jose 2156: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2157: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2158: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2159: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2160: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2161: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2162: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2163: There were many other OpenBSD
2164: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2165: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2166:
2167: <ul>
2168: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2169: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2170: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2171: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2172: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2173: </ul>
2174: <p>
2175:
2176: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2177: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2178: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2179: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2180: <p>
2181:
2182: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2183: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2184: Software '99</a></strong>,
2185: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2186: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2187: <a
1.375 grunk 2188: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2189: <p>
2190:
2191: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2192: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2193: 1999</a></strong>,
2194: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2195: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2196: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2197: <p>
2198:
1.236 jose 2199: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2200: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2201: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2202: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2203: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2204: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2205: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2206: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2207: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2208: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2209: conference in Stockholm.
2210: <p>
2211:
2212: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2213: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2214: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2215: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2216: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2217: coordinated.
2218: <p>
2219:
2220: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2221: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2222: Security</a></strong>,
2223: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2224: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2225: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2226: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2227: significant security roles.
2228: <p>
2229:
2230: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2231: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2232: meeting</a></strong>,
2233: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2234: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2235: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2236: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2237: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2238: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2239: <p>
1.45 jason 2240:
1.132 louis 2241: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2242: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2243: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2244: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2245: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2246: <p>
1.132 louis 2247:
1.236 jose 2248: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2249: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2250: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2251: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2252: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2253: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2254: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2255: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2256: June.)
1.132 louis 2257: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2258: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2259: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2260:
1.375 grunk 2261: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2262: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2263: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2264: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2265: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2266: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2267: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2268: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2269: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2270: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2271: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2272: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2273: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2274: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2275: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2276: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2277: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2278: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2279: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2280: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2281: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2282: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2283: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2284: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2285: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2286: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2287: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2288: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2289:
1.51 deraadt 2290: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2291: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2292: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2293: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2294: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2295: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2296: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2297: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2298: <p>
2299:
1.53 jakob 2300: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2301: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2302: meeting</a></strong>,
2303: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2304: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2305: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2306: <p>
2307:
1.132 louis 2308: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2309: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2310: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2311: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2312: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2313: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2314: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2315: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2316: <p>
1.236 jose 2317: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2318:
1.132 louis 2319: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2320:
1.236 jose 2321: <ul>
1.132 louis 2322: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2323: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
2324: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2325: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2326: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2327: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2328: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2329: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2330: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2331: <p>
2332:
1.236 jose 2333: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2334: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2335: Conference</a></strong>,
2336: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2337: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2338: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2339: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2340: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2341: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2342: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2343: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2344: <br>
1.690 nick 2345: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2346: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2347: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2348: <p>
2349:
1.73 deraadt 2350: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2351: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2352: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2353: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2354: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2355: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2356: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2357: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2358: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2359:
1.236 jose 2360: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690 nick 2361: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2362: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2363: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2364: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2365: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2366: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2367: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2368:
1.690 nick 2369: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216 jose 2370: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2371: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2372: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2373: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2374: <p>
2375:
1.93 louis 2376: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2377: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2378: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2379: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2380: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2381: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2382: <p>
2383:
1.216 jose 2384: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2385: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2386: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2387: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2388: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2389: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2390: <p>
2391:
1.236 jose 2392: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2393: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2394: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2395: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2396: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2397: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2398: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2399: <br>
2400: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2401: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2402: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2403: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2404: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2405:
1.690 nick 2406: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2407: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2408: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2409: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2410: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2411: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2412: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2413: <p>
2414:
1.236 jose 2415: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2416: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2417: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2418: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2419: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2420: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2421: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2422: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2423: <br>
2424: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2425: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2426: <p>
2427:
1.105 wvdputte 2428: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2429: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2430: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2431: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2432: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2433: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2434: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2435: <br>
1.132 louis 2436: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2437: <p>
1.236 jose 2438: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2439:
1.132 louis 2440: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2441:
1.236 jose 2442: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2443: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2444: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2445: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2446: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2447: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2448: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2449: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2450: <p>
1.132 louis 2451:
1.236 jose 2452: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2453: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2454: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2455: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2456: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2457: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2458:
1.236 jose 2459: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2460: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2461: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2462: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2463: <br>
2464: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2465: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2466: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2467: <p>
2468:
1.125 deraadt 2469: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2470: <a
2471: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2472: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2473: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2474: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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1.125 deraadt 2476:
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2480: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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