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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:
1.719 wvdputte 41:
42: <h3>2007</h3>
43:
44: <ul>
45: <p>
46:
47:
48: <li><strong><a name=24c3></a>
49: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2007/">24C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
50: Berlin</a></strong>,
51: December 27 - 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany.<br>
52: This years motto is Volldampf voraus! (literally Full Steam Ahead)
53: <p>
54:
55: </ul>
56:
1.715 jdixon 57: <h3>2008</h3>
58:
59: <ul>
60: <p>
1.716 wvdputte 61: <li><strong><a name="Paris2008"></a>
62: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2008</a>
63: </strong>,
64: Jan 29 - 31, 2008, Paris, France.<br>
65: There will be an OpenBSD booth (for real this year) run by Marc Espie, Saad
66: Kadhi and Wim with help from many others.
67: <p>
1.715 jdixon 68:
69: <li><strong><a name="scale6x"></a>
70: <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/">Southern California Linux
71: Expo 6x</a></strong>,
72: Feb 8 - 10, 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA<br>
73: Jason Dixon will be presenting an overview of the high-availability
74: and failover capabilities found natively in OpenBSD. There will be an
75: OpenBSD booth with live demonstrations and CDs for sale.
76: <p>
77:
1.718 wvdputte 78: <p>
79: <li><strong><a name="vj08"></a>
80: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj08">NLUUG spring conference 2008</a>
81: </strong>,
82: May 15, 2008, Ede, Netherlands.<br>
83: There will be an OpenBSD booth
84: <p>
85:
1.715 jdixon 86: </ul>
87:
1.719 wvdputte 88: <hr>
89:
90: <h2>Past events:</h2>
91:
1.588 espie 92: <h3>2007</h3>
93: <ul>
1.603 fkr 94:
1.721 jsg 95: <li><strong><a name="opencon2007"></a>
96: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2007</a></strong>
97: Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007, Venice, Italy.<br>
98: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
99: This edition was composed of one "tutorial day" and two days of conference.
100: Three days entirely dedicated to OpenBSD with a lot of developers and users.
1.722 jsg 101: Talks by OpenBSD developers were:
102: <p>
103: <ul>
104: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon07-complex/index.html">
105: Why are modern operating systems so complicated?</a>
1.724 jasper 106: <li>Mark Kettenis: <a href="papers/opencon07-sparc64.pdf">
107: OpenBSD/sparc64</a>.
1.723 jasper 108: <li>Reiner Jung and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse: <a href="papers/opencon07-gnome.pdf">
1.724 jasper 109: Gnome as OpenBSD desktop solution</a>.
1.725 ! bernd 110: <li>Bernd Ahlers: <a href="papers/opencon07-portstutorial/index.html">
! 111: OpenBSD Ports Tutorial</a>.
1.722 jsg 112: </ul>
1.721 jsg 113: <p>
114:
1.716 wvdputte 115: <li><strong><a name="dulug2007"></a>
1.719 wvdputte 116: <a href="http://www.dulug.de/">Duisburger Linux User Group</a></strong>,
1.716 wvdputte 117: Nov 17, 2007, Duisburg, Germany<br>
1.719 wvdputte 118: Richard Verwayen gave a workshop on installing OpenBSD,
119: [<a href="http://www.dulug.de/cgi-bin/dcms.cgi?action=lit-17.11.07">pictures</a>]
1.716 wvdputte 120: <p>
121:
122: <li><strong><a name="essen2007"></a>
123: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2007 Essen</a></strong>,
124: Nov 10 - 11, 2007, Essen, Germany<br>
125: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth
126: <p>
127:
128: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
129: <a href="http://www.nluug25.nl/en/index.php">NLUUG 25th anniversary</a></strong>,
130: Nov 7, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
131: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth with Wim, Otto, Floor and Kevin.
132: <p>
1.658 reyk 133:
1.714 jasper 134: <li><strong><a name="amsterdam2007"></a>
135: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071017100734&mode=expanded&count=20">Amsterdam user meeting Cafe De Deugniet</a></strong>,
136: Nov 2, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
137: Informal OpenBSD user meeting in Amsterdam, more info on Undeadly.org
138: <p>
139:
1.713 wvdputte 140: <li><strong><a name="uaoug2007"></a>
141: <a href="http://www.uaoug.org.ua/en/index.html">Ukrainian OpenBSD Users Group meeting</a></strong>,
142: Nov 1, 2007, Kyiv, Ukraine<br>
143: Sergey Prysiazhnyi, community co-ordinator, gave a talk about Driver
144: Architecture and OpenBSD using in Embedded Systems.
145: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/talk/">[slides]</a>
146: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/">[pictures]</a>
147: <a href= "http://www.atmnis.com/~apelsin/uaoug/u2k7_v3.0/video/talk.mp4">[video]</a>
148: <p>
149:
1.712 sthen 150: <li><strong><a name="cossfest2007"></a>
151: <a href="http://www.cossfest.ca/">COSSFEST 2007</a></strong>,
152: Oct 27, 2007, Calgary, Alberta,<br>
153: There was an OpenBSD booth present with 4.2 CDs.
154: <p>
155:
156: <li><strong><a name="systems2007"></a>
157: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
158: Oct 23 - 26, 2007, Munich, Germany<br>
159: The *BSD projects had an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth in Halle B2 110-2, run by
160: DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher and some other volunteers.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><strong><a name="bsdcontr2007"></a>
164: <a href="http://www.bsdcontr.org/">BSDConTR 2007</a></strong>
165: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Rectorate of Marmara University, SultanAhmet, Istanbul,
166: Turkey.<br>
167: First Turkish Conference on BSD Systems.<br>
168: Marc Balmer talked about his work on support for radio clocks in
169: OpenBSD.<br>
170: Gökhan Alkan gave a talk "Spam protection with OpenBSD and PF".<br>
171: Huzeyfe Önal gave a talk "Advanced Security solutions in OpenBSD".
172: <br>
173: <p>
174:
1.708 aanriot 175: <li><strong><a name=aldil2007></a>
176: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
177: 2007</a></strong>,
178: Oct 19 - 20, 2007, Lyon, France.<br>
179: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Damien Bergamini and
180: Alexandre Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas.
181: <p>
182:
1.705 pvalchev 183: <li><strong><a name=rp2007></a>
184: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/">Reflections/Projections
185: 2007</a></strong>,
186: Oct 12 - 14, 2007, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
187: Peter Valchev gave a talk titled <a href="papers/rp2007-slides.pdf">
188: Using OpenBSD Security Features to Find Software Bugs</a>.
189: <p>
190:
191: <li><strong><a name=auug2007></a>
192: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007">AUUG 2007</a></strong>,
193: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
194: Reyk Floeter talked about load balancing and TCP-relaying with hoststated.
195: There were developers, users, and an OpenBSD booth present.
196: <p>
197:
198: <li><strong><a name="t-dose2007"></a>
199: <a href="http://www.t-dose.org/">T-DOSE 2007</a></strong>,
200: Oct 13 - 14, 2007, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.<br>
201: Technical Dutch Open Source Event<br>
202: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
203: run by the usual suspects.
204: <p>
205:
1.689 claudio 206: <li><strong><a name="openexpo2007"></a>
207: <a href="http://www.openexpo.ch/">OpenExpo 2007</a></strong>,
208: Sep 19 - 20, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
209: There were developers present as well as an OpenBSD booth,
210: run by the usual suspects. Stephan A. Rickauer gave a talk
211: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
212: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich".<br>
213: <p>
214:
1.686 mbalmer 215: <li><strong><a name="eurobsdcon2007"></a>
216: <a href="http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
217: Sep 14 - 15, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
218: Marc Balmer gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/mbalmer-radio_clocks.pdf">
219: Support for Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>.<br>
1.702 pyr 220: Pierre-Yves Ritschard gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/pyr-loadbalancing">Load Balancing in OpenBSD Using hoststated</a>.<br>
1.688 claudio 221: Claudio Jeker gave a talk <a href="papers/eurobsdcon07/claudio-routing">
222: Using OpenBSD as Routing Platform</a>.<br>
1.686 mbalmer 223: Peter Hansteen offered "A Packet Filter Tutorial" on the tutorial day.<br>
224: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
225: <p>
226:
1.685 bernd 227: <li><strong><a name="linuxdayskiel2007"></a>
228: <a href="http://www.kieler-linuxtage.de">Kieler Linux und Open Source Tage</a></strong>,
229: Sep 07 - 08, 2007, Kiel, Germany<br>
230: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Bernd.
231: <p>
232:
1.686 mbalmer 233: <li><strong><a name="xds2007"></a>
234: <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007">X.Org Developers' Summit 2007</a></strong>,
235: Sep 10 - 12, 2007, Cambridge, UK.<br>
236: Matthieu Herrb and Marc Balmer attended the 3-day summit to make sure the
237: *BSD point of view was well represented.
238: <p>
239:
1.684 bernd 240: <li><strong><a name="froscon2007"></a>
241: <a href="http://www.froscon.de">FrOSCon 2007</a></strong>,
242: Aug 25 - 26, 2007, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany<br>
243: There was an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual suspects.
244: <p>
245:
1.682 bernd 246: <li><strong><a name="summercamp2007"></a>
247: <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007">Chaos Communication Camp 2007</a>
248: </strong>,
249: Aug 8 - 12, 2007, Finowfurt, Germany<br>
250: This open air event had a big OpenBSD village with all the usual suspects.
251: <p>
252:
1.680 aanriot 253: <li><strong><a name="lsm2007"></a>
254: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2007</a></strong>,
255: Jul 10 - 14, 2007, Amiens, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 256: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
257: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.680 aanriot 258: <p>
259:
1.675 mbalmer 260: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2007></a>
261: <a href="http://www.slackathon.se/">Slackathon 2007</a>
262: </strong>,
263: June 16, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
264: Yet another round of fund raising for OpenBSD/SSH and general *BSD meeting
265: that took place in Stockholm.
266: <p>
267:
268: <li><strong><a name="linuxtag2007"></a>
269: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/">LinuxTag 2007</a>
270: </strong>,
271: May 30 - Jun 2, 2007, Berlin, Germany<br>
272: There were presentations by OpenBSD developers and an OpenBSD booth,
1.677 wvdputte 273: run by the usual suspects, and Stephan A. Rickauer held Peter Hansteen's PF
274: tutorial as well as the talk
275: <a href="http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~stephan/talks/LinuxTag07.pdf">
276: "OpenBSD and Linux: Insights into a migration project at the Institute of
277: Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich"</a>.
1.675 mbalmer 278: <p>
279:
1.674 martin 280: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2007></a>
281: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2007/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2007</a>
282: </strong>,
283: May 31 - Jun 2, 2007, Vienna, Austria.<br>
284: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Martin Reindl, Robert Peichaer
285: and Teemu Schaabl.
286: <p>
287:
1.671 aanriot 288: <li><strong><a name=cuug2007></a>
289: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
290: May 29, 2007, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.688 claudio 291: <a href="papers/cuug07-claudio/">Claudio Jeker</a>,
292: <a href="papers/cuug2007/">David Gwynne, Henning Brauer</a>,
1.673 mbalmer 293: Reyk Flöter, Matthieu Herrb, Marc Balmer, and Bob Beck discussed recent and
294: future networking changes in OpenBSD, as well as Xenocara, support for
295: radio clocks in OpenBSD, and Spam Reduction with OpenBSD spamd and greylisting.
1.672 henning 296: Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide international colour.
1.671 aanriot 297: <p>
298:
1.670 ray 299: <li><strong><a name="bsdcan2007"></a>
300: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/">BSDCan 2007</a></strong>,
301: May 16 - 19, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
302: Several OpenBSD developers were there.<br>
303: Peter Hansteen gave a "Packet filtering for fun and profit" tutorial and
304: presented a "Fighting malware and spam with free tools" talk.<br>
305: Ray Lai presented OpenCVS/OpenRCS and
306: discussed why a secure CVS implementation is needed.
307: <a href="papers/bsdcan07-cvs/">Slides</a> are available.<br>
308: Jason Dixon gave the closing session of BSDCan 2007.
309: <p>
310:
1.669 fkr 311: <li><strong><a name="confidence2007"></a>
312: <a href="http://2007.confidence.org.pl/">Confidence 2007</a></strong>,
313: May 12 - 13, 2007, Krakow, Poland.<br>
314: Felix, Henning and Wim gave presentations and ran the OpenBSD booth.
315: <p>
316:
1.666 michele 317: <li><strong><a name="obsdm2"></a>
318: <a href="http://www.openbeer.it/?open=obsdm2">OpenBSD Meeting V.2</a></strong>
319: May 12, 2007, Verona, Italy.<br>
320: Another event organized by the OpenBEER team with italian OpenBSD related talks.
321: Michele presented a talk about the OpenBSD network stack.
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><strong><a name="nluug2007"></a>
325: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/index.html">NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie
326: 2007</a></strong>,
327: May 10, 2007, Ede, Netherlands<br>
328: There was a
329: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj07/abstracts/ab.html?id=2">presentation</a>
330: by Anil Madhavapeddy and an OpenBSD booth, run by the usual
331: suspects.
332: <p>
333:
1.665 mbalmer 334: <li><strong><a name="coimbra2007"></a>
335: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra07/index-en.html">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
336: May 5 - 6, 2007, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
337: 7th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup.<br>
338: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process".<br>
339: Rui Reis gave a presentation "The Honeynet.PT project".<br>
1.667 pedro 340: Michael Shalayeff gave a talk "Asynchronous I/O".<br>
341: Also present was Pedro Martelletto.
1.665 mbalmer 342: <p>
343:
1.658 reyk 344: <li><strong><a name=decix6th></a>
345: <a href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX 6th Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
346: Apr 19, 2007, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
347: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter talked at the 6th technical
348: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX).
349: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD and Reyk about the latest
350: network-related changes since OpenBSD 4.1. They also talked about
351: the status of test OpenBGPD route server running at the DE-CIX.
352: <p>
353:
1.651 fkr 354: <li><strong><a name="litol07"></a>
355: <a href="http://www.lit-ol.de/">2. Linux-Informationstag Oldenburg</a></strong>,
356: Apr 14 - 15, 2007, Oldenburg, Germany.<br>
357: Small Open-Source event. Of course there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by
1.659 fkr 358: Bernd, Felix and Tobias Stoeckmann. Felix gave a talk about the current state
359: of OpenBSD development titled <a href="papers/litol07/">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
1.651 fkr 360: <p>
1.650 deraadt 361:
362: <li><strong><a name="fisl8"></a>
363: <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en">fisl8.0</a></strong>,
364: Apr 12-14, 2007, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.<br>
365: This was a fairly large conference in South America. Theo de Raadt
366: presented a talk about <a href="papers/brhard2007/">Hardware Documentation</a>.
367: <p>
368:
1.645 ray 369: <li><strong><a name="nycbug2007-cvs"></a>
370: <a href="http://nycbug.org/">NYC*BUG April 2007</a></strong>,
371: Apr 4, 2007, NYC, USA.<br>
372: Ray Lai (ray@) gave a
373: <a href="http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home;SUBM=10104">talk</a>
374: on OpenCVS.
1.648 ray 375: <a href="papers/nycbug07-cvs/">Slides</a> and
376: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-04-04-07.mp3">audio</a>
377: are available.
1.645 ray 378: <p>
379:
1.638 grunk 380: <li><strong><a name="elite2007"></a>
381: <a href="http://www.erlug.de/?q=node/323">5. Erlanger Linuxtage</a></strong>,
382: Mar 24 - 25, 2007, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
383: There was an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth, run by Alexander von Gernler (grunk@).
384: He also gave a talk called
1.639 grunk 385: <a href="papers/elite2007/elite2007-openbsd.pdf">
1.638 grunk 386: "Sichere Systeme mit OpenBSD" (german)</a>.
387: <p>
388:
1.635 tom 389: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2007"></a>
390: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/">UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference</a></strong>,
391: Mar 19 - 21, 2007, Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
392: Tom Cosgrove gave a presentation about "Third-Party Applications on OpenBSD"
393: at the annual spring meeting of the
394: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
395: <p>
396:
1.627 mcbride 397: <li><strong><a name="asiabsdcon2007"></a>
398: <a href="http://www.asiabsdcon.org/">AsiaBSDCon 2007</a></strong>,
399: Mar 8 - 11, 2007, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.631 mbalmer 400: Marc Balmer presented a paper <a href="papers/radio-clocks-asiabsdcon07.pdf">Supporting Radio Clocks in OpenBSD</a>. Presentation
401: <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-radioclocks/index.html">slides</a> are also
402: available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 403: 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 404: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel gave a talk <a href="papers/asiabsdcon07-ipsec/index.html">Recent Improvements in OpenBSD's IPSec Support</a>.<br>
405: Damien Miller presented a paper <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007.pdf">Security measures in OpenSSH</a>. Presentation
1.628 djm 406: <a href="papers/openssh-measures-asiabsdcon2007-slides.pdf">slides</a> are
407: also available.<br>
1.627 mcbride 408: 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".
409: <p>
410:
1.622 fkr 411: <li><strong><a name="linuxforum2007"></a>
412: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2007/">LinuxForum 2007</a></strong>,
413: Mar 2 - 3, 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.<br>
1.623 wvdputte 414: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Bernd and Michael in the
1.633 tom 415: <a href="http://img.ba-net.org/LinuxForum2007/">best of circumstances</a>.
1.622 fkr 416: Felix gave a talk titled
417: <a href="papers/linuxforum07/index.html">OpenBSD - Past, Present and Future</a>.
418: <p>
419:
1.619 wvdputte 420: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2007></a>
421: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/">FOSDEM Brussels 2007</a></strong>,
422: Feb 24 - 25, 2007, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
423: There was an an OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth with Matthieu, Marc, Mickey, Saad
424: and Wim. On Saturday we had our traditional BSD dinner.<br>
425: Matthieu gave a <a href="papers/fosdem07-xenocara.pdf">
426: talk on Xenocara</a> in the X.Org devroom.
427: <p>
1.616 wvdputte 428:
429: <li><strong><a name="kiberpipa2007"></a>
430: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org">Kiberpipa open sessions</a></strong>,
431: February 20, 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia.<br>
432: On that edition of weekly "Open sessions" meetings
433: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
434: <a href="http://pot.kiberpipa.org/?p=39">talk</a> on OpenBSD.
1.619 wvdputte 435: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/Kiberpipa07/">Slides</a> (in Slovenian),
436: <a href="http://video.kiberpipa.org/media/POT_OpenBSD">video</a> (in Slovenian),
1.616 wvdputte 437: and <a href="http://gallery.kerberos.si/kiberpipa07/">photos</a> are available.
438: <p>
439:
440: </ul>
441:
1.445 martin 442: <h3>2006</h3>
1.236 jose 443: <ul>
1.537 deraadt 444:
1.588 espie 445: <li><strong><a name="23c3"></a>
1.577 mbalmer 446: <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/">23C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
447: Berlin</a></strong>,
448: December 27 - 30, 2006, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1.597 mbalmer 449: Who can you trust? Well, us. OpenBSD was there, of course, for our annual
1.595 reyk 450: closing event. fkr, grunk, jsg, mbalmer, mickey, sturm, uwe, martin,
1.598 bernd 451: henning, moritz, bernd and wvdputte were there
1.597 mbalmer 452: there to chat with attendees and discuss OpenBSD stuff. It was - as usual -
453: a great end-of-the-year event. See you in Berlin again end of 2007.
1.577 mbalmer 454: <p>
455:
1.594 mbalmer 456: <li><strong><a name="moscow2006"></a>
457: <a href="https://kd85.com/">Moscow OpenBSD user meeting</a></strong>,
458: December 8 - 9, 2006, Moscow, Russia.<br>
1.633 tom 459: For details, please email <a href="mailto:grange@opensd.org">Grange</a>
1.594 mbalmer 460: <p>
461:
1.515 tom 462: <li><strong><a name="opencon2006"></a>
463: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2006</a></strong>,
1.569 deraadt 464: 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 465: OpenCON is the only conference dedicated solely to OpenBSD.
1.587 deraadt 466: 135 people were registered for the event, but since it was a completely open event is likely that
467: even more people just walked in.
1.577 mbalmer 468: Most talks were by OpenBSD developers, but there was also an impressive
1.568 mbalmer 469: number of our developers just attending the conference. Talks by OpenBSD
1.577 mbalmer 470: developers were:
1.568 mbalmer 471: <p>
1.535 deraadt 472: <ul>
1.581 claudio 473: <li>Claudio Jeker: <a href="papers/opencon06-network/index.html">
474: Network stack changes in OpenBSD</a>
1.580 deraadt 475: <li>Marc Balmer: <a href="papers/opencon06-nmea/index.html">
476: Support for Time Signal Station Receivers and GPS in OpenBSD</a>
1.601 fkr 477: <li>Felix Kronlage: <a href="papers/opencon06-umts/index.html">Redundancy or mobile deployment with 3G technology</a>
1.584 jsg 478: <li>Jonathan Gray: <a href="papers/opencon06-drivers/index.html">
479: Driver architecture and implementation in OpenBSD</a>
1.543 mbalmer 480: <li>Gordon Klok: <i>Processor Power Management</i>
1.596 dlg 481: <li>David Gwynne: <a href="papers/opencon06-culture.pdf">The OpenBSD
482: Culture</a> and he also filled in for Marco's
483: <a href="papers/opencon06-bio.pdf">Bio and Sensors in OpenBSD</a> talk.
1.582 michele 484: <li>Michele Marchetto: <a href="papers/opencon06-ripd/index.html">
485: OpenRIPD</a>
1.574 mbalmer 486: <li>Reyk Floeter: <i>IPsec demystified</i>
1.580 deraadt 487: <li>Theo de Raadt: <a href="papers/opencon06-docs">
488: Why hardware documentation matters so much and why it is so hard to get</a>
1.535 deraadt 489: </ul>
1.502 mbalmer 490: <p>
1.577 mbalmer 491: Also present were jcs, krw, mglocker, robert, wvdputte, martin, grunk,
492: dhartmei, aanriot, sturm, and bernd. Of course there was an OpenBSD booth
493: run by the usual suspects and you could buy our CD-ROMS, the audio CD and other
1.568 mbalmer 494: stuff.
495: <p>
1.502 mbalmer 496:
1.575 reyk 497: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2006></a>
498: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/">OpenSourceTag 2006</a></strong>,
499: Nov 30, 2006, Hannover, Germany.<br>
500: Reyk gave a <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/">talk</a> about OpenBSD
501: as a reference project for secure software.
502: <p>
503:
1.583 henning 504: <li><strong><a name=epf2006></a>
505: <a href="http://www.peering-forum.eu/2006/">European Peering Forum 2006</a></strong>,
506: Nov 29 - 30, 2006, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
507: The European Peering Forum in Frankfurt was hosted by the 3 big european
508: peering points DE-CIX, AMSIX and LINX, bringing network operators together.
509: Henning was talking about OpenBGPD,
510: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/epf2006/">slides</a> are available.
511: <p>
512:
1.565 krw 513: <li><strong><a name=conisli2006></a>
514: <a href="http://conisli.org/">CONISLI 2006</a></strong>,
515: Nov 3 - 5, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil<br>
516: 4th edition of São Paulo's International Free Software Congress.
1.687 jolan 517: Ken Westerback and Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.565 krw 518: <p>
519:
1.559 jason 520: <li><strong><a name=nycbsdcon2006></a>
521: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">NYCBSDCon 2006</a></strong>,
522: Oct 28 - 29, 2006, New York City, USA<br>
523: NYCBSDCon is the main conference on the East Coast for the
524: BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge,
1.562 jason 525: to network with like minded people. Several developers
1.563 jason 526: spoke, more were on hand:
1.559 jason 527: <ul>
528: <li>Marco Peereboom: <a href="papers/bio.pdf">bio and sensors in OpenBSD</a>
1.563 jason 529: [<a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbsdcon06/1.6.mp3">audio</a>]
1.605 jason 530: <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 531: <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>]
532: <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 533: <li>Ray Lai: <i>First time booth bunny</i>
534: </ul>
535: <p>
536:
1.556 fgsch 537: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2006></a>
538: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2006</a></strong>,
539: Oct 25 - 26, 2006, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1.558 wvdputte 540: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Tom, Peter, Federico and
541: Pedro La Peu.
1.556 fgsch 542: <p>
543:
1.589 aanriot 544: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006oct></a>
545: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
546: Oct 24, 2006, downtown Library, basement meeting room, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
547: Theo de Raadt gave a talk regarding the increasing demand for
548: vendors to open up their documentation.
549: <p>
550:
1.553 grunk 551: <li><strong><a name="systems2006"></a>
552: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
553: Oct 23 - 27, 2006, Munich, Germany <br>
554: The *BSD projects were located at A3.542.
555: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
556: Wilhelm Bühler, DaN, Nikolay Sturm, Marco Pfatschbacher,
557: and some other volunteers.
558: <p>
559:
1.550 henning 560: <li><strong><a name=hacklu2006></a>
561: <a href="http://www.hack.lu/">hack.lu 2006</a></strong>,
562: Oct 19 - 21, 2006, Luxembourg/Kirchberg.<br>
563: Henning Brauer gave a well received talk about OpenBGPD.
564: <p>
565:
1.547 aanriot 566: <li><strong><a name=aldil2006></a>
567: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
568: 2006</a></strong>,
569: Oct 13 - 14, 2006, Lyon, France.<br>
570: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat and Alexandre
571: Anriot with the help of Thierry Thomas and Damien Bergamini.
572: <p>
573:
1.546 mcbride 574: <li><strong><a name=auug2006></a>
575: <a href="http://new.auug.org.au/">AUUG 2006</a></strong>,
576: Oct 10 - 13, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
577: Ryan Mcbride presented a full-day tutorial entitled
578: "Advanced PF Rulesets" as well as two additional talks
579: <a href="papers/auug2006/pf_evolution/">PF evolution</a>
580: and
581: <a href="papers/auug2006/network_randomness/">Network stack randomness in OpenBSD</a>.
582: <p>
583:
1.532 wvdputte 584: <li><strong><a name=eurooscon2006></a>
585: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">O'Reilly Euro OSCON 2006
586: </a></strong>,
587: Sep 20, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
588: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
589: <p>
590:
1.528 wvdputte 591: <li><strong><a name=come2linux2006></a>
592: <a href="http://www.come2linux.org/psp/">Come 2 Linux 2006</a></strong>,
593: Sep 9 - 10, 2006, Duisburg-Essen, Germany.<br>
594: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
595: <p>
596:
1.525 wvdputte 597: <li><strong><a name=ChaosdaysDarmstadt2006></a>
598: <a href="http://mrmcd101b.metarheinmain.de/index.html">mrmcd101b - MetaRheinMainChaosDays Darmstadt 2006</a>
599: </strong>,
600: Sep 1 - 3, 2006, Darmstadt, Germany.<br>
601: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
602: <p>
603:
1.521 fkr 604: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoSF2006></a>
605: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04ROFR">LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco 2006</a>
606: </strong>,
607: Aug 16, 2006, San Francisco, United States.<br>
608: Ted Unangst spoke about OpenBSD as part of a security panel.
609: <p>
610:
1.518 tedu 611: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2006></a>
612: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
613: Jul 22 - 23, 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
614: 6th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Marc Balmer gave a talk
615: "NMEA 0183 and Time Signal Station Receiver Support in OpenBSD".
616: <p>
617:
618: <li><strong><a name=akqit2006></a>
619: <a href="http://www.akqit.ch/w3/DE/actual.html">Arbeitskreis für Qualität in der Informationstechnologie (Working Group for Quality in IT)</a></strong>,
620: Jul 20, 2006, University of Basel, Computer Science Department, Room 205, Bernoullistr. 16, 17:30 - 18:30<br>
1.590 mbalmer 621: Marc Balmer gave a talk in german "<a href="papers/akqit06/index.html">Ensuring
622: Quality in the Development of the Free Operating System OpenBSD</a>".
1.518 tedu 623: <p>
1.475 deraadt 624:
1.510 wvdputte 625: <li><strong><a name="lsm2006"></a>
626: <a href="http://www.rmll.info">Libre Software Meeting 2006</a></strong>,
627: Jul 4 - 8, 2006, Vandoeuvre-les-nancy, France.<br>
1.681 aanriot 628: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim, Matthieu and
629: Alexandre with the help of Serge and Christelle.
1.510 wvdputte 630: <p>
631:
1.508 wvdputte 632: <li><strong><a name=FrOSCon></a>
633: <a href="http://www.froscon.de/">
634: FrOSCon 2006 - Free and Open Source Software Conference</a></strong>,
635: Jun 24 - 25, 2006, Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, Germany.<br>
1.518 tedu 636: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim, Waldemar, Manuel and
1.508 wvdputte 637: Tim Kornau.
638: <p>
639:
1.507 mbalmer 640: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenLinz2006></a>
641: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Linz">Linuxwochen Linz 2006</a>
642: </strong>,
643: June 15, 2006, Linz, Austria.<br>
644: There was an an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
645: <p>
646:
1.506 deraadt 647: <li><strong><a name=lugverona2006></a>
1.526 steven 648: <a href="http://www.di.univr.it/dol/main?ent=iniziativa&id=857&lang=it">LUGVR@UNIVR</a></strong>
1.506 deraadt 649: Jun 9, 2006, Verona University, Borgo Roma, Italy.<br>
650: Florin Iamandi of <a href="https://www.verona.linux.it">LUG Verona</a>
651: gave a talk
652: (<a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/en">English</a> and
653: <a href="http://todome.net/docs/obsd_carp/it">Italian</a>)
654: and live demonstration on redundant failover
655: OpenBSD firewalls. He explained why OpenBSD solves many problems that
656: had previously been the dominion of expensive commercial solutions.
657: Attendees learned about OpenBSD's hard stance and successful fight against
658: bad licences and uncooperating vendors and manufacturers.
659: <p>
660:
1.502 mbalmer 661: <li><strong><a name=Slackathon2006></a>
662: <a href="http://slackathon2006.unix.se">Slackathon 2006</a>
663: </strong>
664: Jun 3, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
665: A fundraiser for OpenBSD/SSH held at the Stockholm University. Free
1.505 ian 666: entrance and all donations went straight to the project. Several
1.502 mbalmer 667: developers were talking about OpenBSD here, as well as some hands-on
668: workshops took place with both old and new hardware.
669: <p>
670:
1.500 deraadt 671: <li><strong><a name=cuug2006></a>
672: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
673: Jun 1, 2006, SAIT Campus, Calgary, Alberta.<br>
1.504 miod 674: Bob Beck and Reyk Floeter discussed recent and future networking
675: changes in OpenBSD. Some other OpenBSD developers attended to provide
1.500 deraadt 676: international colour, and there were tshirts, CDs, and posters on hand.
677: CUUG made a substantial contribution to OpenBSD at this event as well.
678: <p>
679:
1.589 aanriot 680: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2006></a>
681: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006/Wien">Linuxwochen Vienna 2006</a>
682: </strong>,
683: May 31 - Jun 2, 2006, Vienna, Austria.<br>
684: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the usual suspects.
685: <p>
686:
1.585 aanriot 687: <li><strong><a name=plug060519></a>
1.586 aanriot 688: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
689: May 19, 2006, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 690: Alexandre Anriot spoke about the deployment of wireless networks with
1.586 aanriot 691: OpenBSD during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 692: <p>
693:
1.491 bernd 694: <li><strong><a name="SANE2006"></a>
695: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/">SANE 2006</a></strong>,
696: May 15 - 19, 2006, Delft, The Netherlands.<br>
697: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a
698: <a href="http://www.sane.nl/sane2006/program/abstract.php?eventid=35">
699: PF tutorial</a>.
700: <p>
701:
1.490 reyk 702: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2006></a> <a
703: href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/">BSDCan 2006</a></strong>,
704: May 12 - 13, 2006, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
705: David Gwynne gave a talk about hardware monitoring with bio and
706: sensors in OpenBSD (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-biosensors.pdf">slides</a>)
707: and Reyk Flöter talked about the latest
708: wireless support and the incredible plans for the future
709: (<a href="papers/bsdcan06-wlan/index.html">slides</a>), and
710: Peter Hansteen gave a PF tutorial. A number of OpenBSD hackers
711: attended the conference as well, like Bob Beck and Mathieu Sauve-Frankel.
712: <p>
713:
1.489 bernd 714: <li><strong><a name="linuxdays2006"></a>
715: <a href="http://www.linuxdays.ch">Linuxdays 2006</a></strong>,
716: May 8 - 12, 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.<br>
717: Julien Mabillard, a long-time Geneva OpenBSD user, gave a talk to present
718: the overall system and its great features.
719: <p>
720:
1.592 claudio 721: <li><strong><a name="idepes2006"></a>
1.589 aanriot 722: <a href="http://www.idepes.org.br/openbsd/">IDEPES 2006</a></strong>,
723: May 6, 2006, São Paulo, Brazil.<br>
724: First event in Brazil totally dedicated to OpenBSD.
725: <p>
726:
1.592 claudio 727: <li><strong><a name="LinuxTag2006"></a>
1.484 mbalmer 728: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">LinuxTag 2006</a></strong>,
729: May 3 - 6, 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany.<br>
730: OpenBSD was very present at this years Linuxtag:
731: <ul>
732: <li>On friday morning, Claudio and Marc moderated a panel discussion
733: "BLOBS sind das Krebsgeschwür freier Software" (Blobs are the
1.485 mbalmer 734: cancer of free software) that was well attended. Unfortunately no one
1.484 mbalmer 735: in favour of Blobs attended, although we asked almost all Linux
736: distributions...
737: <li>After lunch, Marc Balmer started the afternoon with a talk "OpenBSD
738: as a Strategic Platform for the Basle Public Schools", outlining how and
1.485 mbalmer 739: why the Basle Public school system uses OpenBSD for most of its
1.484 mbalmer 740: infrastructure.
1.592 claudio 741: <li>The next OpenBSD specific talk was by Claudio Jeker,
742: <a href="papers/linuxtag06-network/">"Routing with OpenBSD using
743: OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD"</a> where he showed various routing setups and
744: how full redundancy can be achieved.
745: [<a href="papers/linuxtag06-network.pdf">paper</a>]
1.484 mbalmer 746: <li>Later, Marc Balmer gave a talk "Decoding Time Signal Stations using
747: OpenBSD" and explained the recent addition of timedelta sensors and the
748: first implementation of such, udcf(4).
749: </ul>
750: <br>
751: All talks where very well received and OpenBSD filled four hours of the
1.485 mbalmer 752: Linuxtag program. We thank Wilhelm Bühler, chair of the BSD-Track
1.484 mbalmer 753: at Linuxtag, for the superb and professional organization.
754: <br>
755: Of course, there was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and the
756: usual suspects.
757: <p>
758:
1.486 mickey 759: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2006-05></a>
760: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
761: May 3, 2006, NYC, USA.<br>
762: Mickey gave a talk
1.564 jason 763: (<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 764: about PAE work for OpenBSD/i386.<br>
765: Mischa Diehm gave a talk about implementing VPN using OpenBSD.
766: <p>
767:
1.484 mbalmer 768: <li><strong><a name=tokyo2006></a>
769: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/index.php/weblog/">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
770: May 2, 2006, Tokyo.<br>
771: Theo presented his <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">"Exploit Mitigation Techniques"</a>
772: talk. There is a
773: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.org/faxmessage/index.html#about">map to the location</a>.
774: <p>
775:
1.478 mbalmer 776: <li><strong><a name=SambaEXPerience2006></a>
777: <a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/">Samba eXPerience 2006</a></strong>,
778: April 24 - 26, 2006, Göttingen, Germany.<br>
779: Marc Balmer gave a talk "Providing Fully Automated Fileserver Services
780: for Public Schools using LDAP Integrated SAMBA on OpenBSD" that was very
781: well received.
782: <br>
783: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth run by Wim and Marc and Felix Kronlage
784: and we could draw a lot of attention.
785: <p>
786:
1.479 deraadt 787: <li><strong><a name=DORSCLUC2006></a>
788: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/"> DORS / CLUC 2006</a></strong>,
789: April 19-21, 2006, Zagreb, Croatia.<br>
790: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si">Mitja Muzenic</a> gave a
1.480 mbalmer 791: <a href="http://www.kerberos.si/papers/DORS06/index.html">
792: "Introduction to OpenBSD"</a> talk. Conference
793: <a href="http://www.open.hr/dc2006/program.php">program</a> (in croatian
1.479 deraadt 794: only).
795: <p>
796:
1.475 deraadt 797: <li><strong><a name=linuxworld2006></a>
798: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/">
799: LinuxWorld/OpenSolutions World 2006</a></strong>,
800: April 3 - 6, 2006, Boston, USA.<br>
801: Jason Dixon presented
802: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A/conference/tracksessions/Security/QMONYA04Q1DK">Secure Network Architectures with OpenBSD</a>,
803: a talk on OpenBSD that outlines the various technologies that make
804: it a leader of secure networking platforms.
805: <br>
806: He spent time around the exposition BSD booth with giveaways
807: and early release OpenBSD 3.9 CDs.
808: <p>
809:
810: <li><strong><a name=cansecwest06></a>
811: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com">Cansecwest/core06</a></strong>,
812: April 3 - 7, 2006, Vancouver.<br>
813: A rather interesting OpenBSD-related talk happened at this event, regarding
814: using SMI interrupts to break out of X into kernel mode.
815: <br>
816: Some OpenBSD developers attended. Some early OpenBSD 3.9 items went
817: on sale.
818: <p>
819:
1.469 tom 820: <li><strong><a name=ukuug2006></a>
821: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/">UKUUG Spring Conference 2006</a></strong>,
822: Mar 22 - 23, 2006, Durham, United Kingdom<br>
823: Reyk Flöter gave a talk about the latest wireless support in
824: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the
825: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/">UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group</a>.
826: Peter N. M. Hansteen
827: gave a PF tutorial, Tom Cosgrove presented "Exploit
828: Mitigation Techniques" and Constantine Murenin gave a
829: presentation on "Hardware temperature monitoring device
830: drivers for OpenBSD".
831: These were all part of a new, well-attended, BSD stream at the event.
832: <p>
833:
1.459 henning 834: <li><strong><a name=Copenhagen2006></a>
835: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2006/en/">LinuxForum 2006</a></strong>,
836: Mar 3 - 4, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark<br>
837: Wim gave Felix Kronlage's talk about OpenBSD Mobile Use (wifi, UMTS,
838: GPRS, phones and the like) with some demo setups.
839: Henning Brauer gave a very well received talk about OpenBGPD,
840: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/linuxforum2006/">slides</a> are available.
841: <p>
842:
1.457 wvdputte 843: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2006></a>
844: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/">FOSDEM Brussels 2006</a></strong>,
845: Feb 25 - 26, 2006, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
846: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by the usual gang of suspects:
1.458 xsa 847: Alexandre, Dimitar, Matthieu, Mbalmer, Nikolay, Otto, Reyk, Saad, Thierry, Uwe, Wim, and
1.457 wvdputte 848: Xsa. Reyk gave a talk about Wifi with OpenBSD and there was our traditional
849: BSD dinner. More details and
850: <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/pictures/fosdem2006/index.html">pictures</a>
1.458 xsa 851: on <a href="http://saad.docisland.org/blog/files/archive-12.html#unique-entry-id-40">Saad's blog</a>.
1.457 wvdputte 852: <p>
853:
854: <li><strong><a name=Vegas2006></a>
855: <a href="http://kd85.com/vegas2006.html">Merciful briefings 2006</a></strong>,
856: Feb 15, 2006, Las Vegas, USA - Feb 17, 2006, San Diego, USA - Feb 18, 2006, Phoenix, USA.<br>
857: While traveling the US, Wim met with a bunch of OpenBSD users in Las Vegas,
858: San Diego and Phoenix. With many thanks to the members of PhxBUG - Phoenix BSD
859: User Group, more specificly Darrin Chandler, for organising the little
860: details and Jacob for road trip directions.
861: <p>
1.455 grunk 862:
1.456 henning 863: <li><strong><a name=nanog36></a>
864: <a href="http://www.nanog.org/">NANOG 36</a></strong>,
865: Feb 12 - 15, 2006, Dallas, USA.<br>
866: Henning Brauer and Bernhard Kroenung of DE-CIX talked about OpenBGPD and
867: OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36/">slides</a>
868: are available. Henning talked again at the tools BOF
869: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/nanog36-bof/">slides</a>).
870: Both talks were very well received by the audience.
871: Kenjiro Cho was there too, talking about IPv6 issues.
872: <p>
873:
1.455 grunk 874: <li><strong><a name="Paris2006"></a>
875: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2006</a>
876: </strong>,
877: Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006, Paris, France.<br>
878: There was an OpenBSD booth run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and
879: Wim with help from Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert.
880: <p>
881: </ul>
882:
1.296 mcbride 883: <h3>2005</h3>
1.240 espie 884:
885: <ul>
1.337 deraadt 886:
1.445 martin 887: <li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
888: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
889: Berlin</a></strong>,
890: December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
891: Many OpenBSD developers and users met for a Xmas break in a unique setting.
892: <p>
893:
1.585 aanriot 894: <li><strong><a name=plug051216></a>
1.586 aanriot 895: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
896: December 16, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
897: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenSSH during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 898: <p>
899:
1.435 matthieu 900: <li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
901: <a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
902: Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
903: The 4th edition of the european conference for BSD systems has been a
904: great success. More than 225 people from 27 countries attended the
1.438 deraadt 905: event.
1.444 grunk 906: The program included a
907: <a href="http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php">tutorial by Reyk about
1.437 niallo 908: OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and the following talks
909: <ul>
1.438 deraadt 910: <li>Henning Brauer with Wilhelm Bühler "Signal Handlers"
911: <li>Ryan McBride "Network Stack Randomness"
1.439 matthieu 912: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/herrb-hopf.pdf">Matthieu Herrb and Matthias Hopf "New Evolutions in the X Window System"</a>
1.440 claudio 913: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/claudio/">Claudio Jeker "The Design and Implementation of OpenOSPFD"</a>
1.439 matthieu 914: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/niallo-uwe/">Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler "Embedded OpenBSD"</a>
1.443 deraadt 915: <li><a href="papers/eurobsd2005/tedu-rthreads.pdf">Ted Unangst "rthreads: A New Thread Implementation for OpenBSD"</a>
1.437 niallo 916: </ul>
1.438 deraadt 917: <p>
1.435 matthieu 918: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
919: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
920: <p>
921:
1.434 bernd 922: <li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
923: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
924: Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
925: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
926: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a> and Bernd.
927: <p>
928:
1.441 niallo 929: <li><strong><a name="pacsec05"></a>
930: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/">PacSec/core 05 conference</a></strong>,
931: Nov 15 - 16, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
932: Sean Comeau presented a talk called
933: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/pacsec05/index.html">
934: Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World</a>
935: <a href="http://www.pacsec.jp/core05/psj05-scomeau-en.pdf">[PDF]</a>.
936: The solution he presents uses IPsec to protect traffic between the
937: wireless clients and access points. Authentication is done using OpenSSH
938: (authpf), a process made transparent and user-friendly by a few small
939: scripts.
940: <p>
941:
1.424 mbalmer 942: <li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
943: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
944: Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
1.427 deraadt 945: The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
946: crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
947: university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
1.429 deraadt 948: In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
1.427 deraadt 949: for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
1.433 deraadt 950: talks, including
951: <ul>
952: <li><a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev "OpenBSD Hackathon report"</a>
953: <li><a href="papers/ven05-espie">Marc Espie "OpenBSD ports and packages"</a>
954: <li><a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer "OpenBSD networking update"</a>
955: <li><a href="papers/ven05-niallo-uwe/slides.pdf">Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins "Porting OpenBSD"</a>
956: <li><a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt "Exploit Mitigation Techniques (updated to include random malloc and mmap)"</a>
957: </ul>
1.424 mbalmer 958: <p>
959:
960: <li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
961: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
962: Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
1.425 mbalmer 963: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1.424 mbalmer 964: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
965: <p>
966:
1.418 djm 967: <li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
968: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
969: October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
970: Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
971: stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
972: a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
973: <a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
1.420 deraadt 974: Damien Miller presented on the approach to
975: <a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
976: by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
1.418 djm 977: support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
978: Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
979: <p>
980:
1.415 aanriot 981: <li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
982: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
983: 2005</a></strong>,
984: Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
985: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
986: help of Thierry Thomas.
987: <p>
988:
1.420 deraadt 989: <li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
990: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
991: 4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
992: Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
993: CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
994: Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
995: 116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
996: event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
997: registration was mandatory.<br>
998: Fernando Gont gave a talk on
1.444 grunk 999: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1000: ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
1001: in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
1002: counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
1.444 grunk 1003: <a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
1.420 deraadt 1004: Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
1005: in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
1006: mechanism.
1007: <p>
1008:
1.414 bernd 1009: <li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
1010: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
1011: Technology Conference</a></strong>,
1012: Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1013: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1014: <p>
1015:
1016: <li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
1017: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
1018: Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
1019: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
1020: <p>
1021:
1.410 wvdputte 1022: <li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
1.575 reyk 1023: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1024: Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
1.444 grunk 1025: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
1.575 reyk 1026: <a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/agenda/">talk</a> about IT security.
1.410 wvdputte 1027: <p>
1028:
1029: <li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
1030: <a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
1031: Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
1032: Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
1.444 grunk 1033: <a href="http://www.gubug.org/">The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
1.410 wvdputte 1034: their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
1035: There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
1036: fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
1037: installed on your computer.
1038: Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
1.419 djm 1039: Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
1.410 wvdputte 1040: <p>
1041:
1.404 wvdputte 1042: <li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
1043: <a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1044: Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.404 wvdputte 1045: NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
1046: City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
1.406 saad 1047: The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
1.404 wvdputte 1048: BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
1049: NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
1050: December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
1051: Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
1052: number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
1053: Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
1057: <a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
1058: Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1059: An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
1060: <p>
1061:
1.403 henning 1062: <li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
1063: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1064: Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.403 henning 1065: Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
1066: technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
1067: Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
1068: using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
1069: There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
1070: <a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
1071: <p>
1072:
1.388 tom 1073: <li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
1074: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
1075: Conference 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1076: Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
1.388 tom 1077: Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.385 mickey 1080: <li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
1.390 deraadt 1081: <a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1082: Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
1.385 mickey 1083: As every 4 years, Wim organized the
1084: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
1.389 tom 1085: open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
1086: <a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
1.385 mickey 1087: and an excellent
1088: <a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
1089: If you want to see what happened previously, check
1090: <a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
1091: and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
1092: <p>
1093:
1.382 pedro 1094: <li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
1.474 pedro 1095: <a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1096: Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
1.538 pedro 1097: 5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk.
1.382 pedro 1098: <p>
1099:
1.378 aanriot 1100: <li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
1101: <a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1102: Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
1.379 aanriot 1103: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
1104: suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
1105: some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
1106: Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
1.378 aanriot 1107: <p>
1108:
1.375 grunk 1109: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
1110: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1111: Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.375 grunk 1112: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
1113: Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
1114: <p>
1115:
1.374 grunk 1116: <li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
1117: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
1.410 wvdputte 1118: Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
1.374 grunk 1119: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
1120: failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
1121: Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
1122: OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
1123: on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
1124: <p>
1125:
1.371 deraadt 1126: <li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
1127: <a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1128: Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.371 deraadt 1129: Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
1130: personal computer club. The talk was entitled
1131: <a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
1132: "Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
1133: He demonstrated how companies can easily
1134: integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
1135: infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
1136: significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
1137: and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
1138: implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
1139: <p>
1140:
1.366 martin 1141: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
1142: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
1143: May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1144: The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1145: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
1146: CDs and shirts.
1147: <p>
1148:
1.365 mcbride 1149: <li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
1150: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
1151: May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1152: Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
1153: A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
1154: paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
1155: effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
1156: <br>
1157: Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
1158: in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
1159: <p>
1160:
1.362 reyk 1161: <li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
1162: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
1163: May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1164: A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
1165: Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
1166: Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
1167: on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
1168: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
1169: <a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
1170: Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
1171: <p>
1172:
1.358 mcbride 1173: <li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
1174: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
1175: May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
1176: Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
1177: developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
1178: <p>
1179:
1.357 henning 1180: <li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
1181: <a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
1182: May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
1183: RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
1184: There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
1185: henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
1186: <p>
1187:
1.384 tom 1188: <li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
1.356 espie 1189: <a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1190: Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
1.356 espie 1191: There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
1192: Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
1193: packages work in front of about 30 people.
1194: <p>
1195:
1.353 henning 1196: <li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
1197: href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1198: Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
1.353 henning 1199: Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
1200: meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
1201: presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
1202: the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
1.354 reyk 1203: Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
1.353 henning 1204: <p>
1205:
1.352 henning 1206: <li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
1207: <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1208: Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
1.352 henning 1209: Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
1210: gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
1211: way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
1212: traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
1213: a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
1214: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1215: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
1216: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
1217: href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
1218: available if you couldn't make it there.
1219: <p>
1220:
1.589 aanriot 1221:
1222: <li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
1223: <a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
1224: Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
1225: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
1226: <p>
1227:
1.350 marius 1228: <li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
1229: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
1.410 wvdputte 1230: Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
1.350 marius 1231: California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
1232: super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
1233: sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
1234: ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
1235: excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
1.351 marius 1236: would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
1.350 marius 1237: <p>
1238:
1.585 aanriot 1239: <li><strong><a name=plug050408></a>
1.586 aanriot 1240: <a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>
1241: April 8, 2005, Marseille, France.<br>
1.585 aanriot 1242: Alexandre Anriot spoke about OpenBSD and some associated projects
1.586 aanriot 1243: (OpenBGPD etc.) during a meeting of the PLUG.
1.585 aanriot 1244: The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.344 martin 1245: <p>
1246:
1.337 deraadt 1247: <li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
1248: <a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1249: Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
1.337 deraadt 1250: Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
1251: discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
1.338 deraadt 1252: applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
1.337 deraadt 1253: source firewalls.
1254: <p>
1255:
1.317 henning 1256: <li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
1257: <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
1258: Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.318 henning 1259: Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
1.326 mcbride 1260: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
1.318 henning 1261: Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
1.317 henning 1262: <p>
1263:
1.312 deraadt 1264: <li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
1265: <a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
1266: Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1.320 deraadt 1267: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1268: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1.312 deraadt 1269: <p>
1270:
1.319 saad 1271: <li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
1272: <a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
1273: Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
1274: Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.310 mickey 1277: <li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
1.375 grunk 1278: <a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
1.310 mickey 1279: Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
1.322 deraadt 1280: Mickey gave a talk
1.325 mickey 1281: (<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
1.564 jason 1282: <a href="http://www.fetissov.org/public/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
1.321 mickey 1283: about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
1.313 martin 1284: to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
1.310 mickey 1285: <p>
1.312 deraadt 1286:
1.308 deraadt 1287: <li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
1288: <a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
1289: Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
1290: Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
1.320 deraadt 1291: talks. Topics included
1292: <a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
1.326 mcbride 1293: <a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
1294: OpenBGPD, and pf.
1295: Almost 200 people came to this event.
1.308 deraadt 1296: <p>
1297:
1.304 saad 1298: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
1299: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
1300: Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1301: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
1302: Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
1.307 otto 1303: (among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
1.304 saad 1304: Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
1.360 db 1305: Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
1306: Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
1.316 mbalmer 1307: Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
1.304 saad 1308: There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
1309: signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
1310: OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
1.375 grunk 1311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
1.304 saad 1312: At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
1313: awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
1314: wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
1315: <p>
1.301 saad 1316: <li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
1317: <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1318: Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
1319: Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
1320: <p>
1321: <li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
1322: <a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
1323: Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
1324: Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
1325: OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
1326: <p>
1.293 saad 1327: <li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
1328: <a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
1329: Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
1330: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
1331: were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
1332: Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
1.294 saad 1333: french translation team.<br>
1334: Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
1335: special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
1336: href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
1337: available.<br>
1338: During the event, several demonstrations of <a
1.293 saad 1339: href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
1340: were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
1341: <p>
1.296 mcbride 1342: </ul>
1.293 saad 1343:
1.296 mcbride 1344: <h3>2004</h3>
1345:
1346: <ul>
1.287 henning 1347: <li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
1348: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
1.375 grunk 1349: Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
1.287 henning 1350: "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
1351: <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
1352: Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
1.315 nick 1353: Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
1.287 henning 1354: Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
1355: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
1356: The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
1357: <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
1358: work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
1359: This installation was a very successful test of the new
1.290 henning 1360: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
1.287 henning 1361: driver.
1362: <p>
1.248 deraadt 1363:
1.286 kevlo 1364: <li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
1.417 kevlo 1365: <a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
1.286 kevlo 1366: Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
1367: Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
1368: <p>
1369:
1.285 deraadt 1370: <li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
1371: <a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
1372: Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
1373: Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
1374: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1375: <p>
1376:
1.283 saad 1377: <li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
1378: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
1379: Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1380: Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
1381: meeting of the
1382: <a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
1383: Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
1.284 xsa 1384: <a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
1.283 saad 1385: <p>
1386:
1.282 henning 1387: <li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
1388: <a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
1389: Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
1390: OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
1391: two days, on bgpd
1392: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
1393: ntpd
1394: (<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
1395: and signal handlers
1396: (<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
1397: Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
1398: <p>
1399:
1.275 deraadt 1400: <li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
1401: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
1402: Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
1403: Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
1404: <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
1405: Room B-02 of the
1406: <a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
1407: Computing Sciences Center</a>.
1408: Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
1409: from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
1410: The talk was also given the following day at the
1411: <a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
1412: <p>
1413:
1.271 henning 1414: <li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
1415: <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
1416: Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1417: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1418: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1419: Henning gave a talk
1.375 grunk 1420: about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
1.272 henning 1421: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
1.271 henning 1422: <p>
1423:
1424: <li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
1425: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
1426: Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
1.272 henning 1427: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1428: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1.271 henning 1429: <p>
1430:
1.276 deraadt 1431: <li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
1.270 deraadt 1432: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
1433: Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
1434: Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
1435: Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
1436: <p>
1437:
1438: <li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
1.269 krw 1439: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
1440: Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
1.381 aanriot 1441: There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
1.415 aanriot 1442: Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
1.269 krw 1443: <p>
1444:
1445: <li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
1446: <a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
1447: Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
1448: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1449: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1450: <p>
1451:
1.268 krw 1452: <li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
1453: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1454: Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
1455: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1456: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1457: <p>
1458:
1.375 grunk 1459: <li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
1.268 krw 1460: <a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
1461: Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
1462: Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
1463: "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
1464: <p>
1465:
1466: <li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
1467: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
1.410 wvdputte 1468: , Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
1.268 krw 1469: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1470: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1471: <p>
1472:
1.265 wvdputte 1473: <li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
1474: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1475: Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
1.265 wvdputte 1476: From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
1477: developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
1478: hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
1479: event."
1480: <br>
1481: Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
1482: install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
1483: It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
1484: <a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
1485: geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
1486: <br>
1487: There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
1488: <p>
1489:
1.262 henning 1490: <li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
1491: <a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1492: Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.262 henning 1493: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
1494: Henning's slides from his talks about
1495: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
1496: <a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
1497: are available.
1498: <p>
1499:
1.261 deraadt 1500: <li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
1.266 jolan 1501: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
1.261 deraadt 1502: Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
1503: Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
1504: newly extended version of the
1505: <a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
1506: For more information, see this
1507: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
1508: ComputerWorld article</a>.
1509: <p>
1510:
1511:
1.680 aanriot 1512: <li><strong><a name=lsm2004></a>
1.257 saad 1513: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1514: Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
1.257 saad 1515: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1516: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1517: <p>
1518:
1519: <li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
1520: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1521: Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
1.257 saad 1522: There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
1523: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
1524: <p>
1525:
1.254 xsa 1526: <li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
1.255 xsa 1527: <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
1.254 xsa 1528: May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
1529: The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
1530: Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
1531: and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
1532: a basic talk about pf.
1533: <p>
1534:
1.248 deraadt 1535: <li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
1.303 mcbride 1536: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
1.248 deraadt 1537: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
1538: BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
1.302 mcbride 1539: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
1540: focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
1541: Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
1.248 deraadt 1542: <a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
1543: <p>
1544:
1.247 canacar 1545: <li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
1546: <a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
1547: May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1548: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
1549: philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
1550: security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
1551: XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
1552: projects were discussed.<br>
1553: You can view the
1.720 canacar 1554: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.247 canacar 1555: slides in PDF format</a> the
1.720 canacar 1556: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2004/LOYS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.tex">
1.247 canacar 1557: LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
1558: <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
1559: <p>
1560:
1.242 henning 1561: <li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
1562: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
1563: Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
1.243 henning 1564: An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
1565: Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
1566: Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
1567: Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
1568: and systrace
1.263 saad 1569: (<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
1.243 henning 1570: Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
1571: (<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
1572: On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
1.242 henning 1573: <p>
1574:
1.240 espie 1575: <li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
1576: <a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
1577: Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
1578: An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
1579: <a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
1580: <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1581: <p>
1582:
1583: <li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
1584: <a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
1585: Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
1.397 grunk 1586: <a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
1.240 espie 1587: have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
1588: Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
1589: <p>
1590: </ul>
1591:
1.188 henning 1592: <h3>2003</h3>
1.236 jose 1593:
1594: <ul>
1.232 jose 1595: <li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
1596: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
1597: Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
1598: OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
1599: <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
1.236 jose 1600: Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
1.260 saad 1601: <a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
1.232 jose 1602: introducing the project and the OS (in German).
1.236 jose 1603: <p>
1.232 jose 1604:
1.228 jose 1605: <li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
1.236 jose 1606: <a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1607: Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
1608: This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
1.236 jose 1609: Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
1610: of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
1.228 jose 1611: with OpenBSD PF.
1612: <p>
1613:
1614: <li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
1.720 canacar 1615: <a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Turkish Linux Users Association</a></strong>,
1.228 jose 1616: Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
1.720 canacar 1617: Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
1.228 jose 1618: The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
1.236 jose 1619: project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
1620: talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
1621: part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
1622: the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
1.720 canacar 1623: <a href="http://purl.org/net/bddemir/talk/2003/LS-OpenBSD-cea-bdd.pdf">
1.236 jose 1624: slides in PDF format </a>
1625: (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 1626: <p>
1627:
1.227 jose 1628: <li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
1629: <a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
1630: Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
1631: Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
1632: <p>
1633:
1634: <li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
1635: <a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
1.410 wvdputte 1636: Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
1.236 jose 1637: Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
1.227 jose 1638: gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
1.236 jose 1639: <a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
1640: <a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
1.227 jose 1641: itojun Hagino presented material covering
1.236 jose 1642: <a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
1.241 david 1643: IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
1.227 jose 1644: in Internet worm defenses.
1645: <p>
1646:
1.224 miod 1647: <li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
1648: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
1649: Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
1650: Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
1651: as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
1652: <a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
1653: format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
1654: as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
1655: OpenBSD.
1656: <p>
1657:
1658: <li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
1659: <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
1660: Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
1661: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
1662: <p>
1663:
1664: <li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
1665: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
1666: Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
1667: An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
1668: <p>
1669:
1.219 jose 1670: <li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
1671: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
1672: Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
1.236 jose 1673: OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
1.219 jose 1674: gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
1675: <p>
1676:
1.218 jose 1677: <li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
1678: <a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
1679: Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
1.236 jose 1680: Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
1.218 jose 1681: href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
1682: <p>
1683:
1.214 henning 1684: <li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
1685: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1686: Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
1.214 henning 1687: There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
1688: <p>
1689:
1.213 jose 1690: <li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
1691: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1692: Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
1.236 jose 1693: Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
1.213 jose 1694: developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
1695: Several OpenBSD developers were there.
1696: <p>
1697:
1.211 jose 1698: <li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
1699: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1700: Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
1.211 jose 1701: Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
1702: <p>
1703:
1704: <li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
1705: <a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1706: Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
1.212 matthieu 1707: Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
1.211 jose 1708: also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1709: <p>
1710:
1.209 wvdputte 1711: <li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
1712: <a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1713: Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
1.209 wvdputte 1714: There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
1715: <p>
1.195 deraadt 1716:
1.202 jason 1717: <li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
1.236 jose 1718: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 1719: Conference</a></strong>,
1720: Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.202 jason 1721: A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
1722: <ul>
1.216 jose 1723: <li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
1.202 jason 1724: <a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
1.236 jose 1725: Angelos D. Keromytis,
1726: Jason L. Wright, and
1.205 deraadt 1727: Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.202 jason 1728: <a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
1729: </ul>
1730: <p>
1731:
1.216 jose 1732: <li><strong>
1733: <a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
1734: May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
1.203 jason 1735: Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
1.661 martynas 1736: <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
1.203 jason 1737: <p>
1738:
1.216 jose 1739: <li><strong>
1740: <a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
1741: Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
1.195 deraadt 1742: Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
1.196 matthieu 1743: available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
1.195 deraadt 1744: <p>
1745:
1.216 jose 1746: <li><strong>
1747: <a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
1748: Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
1.236 jose 1749: 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 1750: gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
1.194 henning 1751: <p>
1752:
1.216 jose 1753: <li><strong>
1754: <a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
1755: Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
1.236 jose 1756: Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
1757: <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
1.191 dhartmei 1758: It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
1759: user groups.
1760: <p>
1761:
1.236 jose 1762: <li><strong>
1763: <a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
1.216 jose 1764: Group</a></strong>,
1765: Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
1.190 miod 1766: OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
1767: changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
1768: "buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
1769: <p>
1770:
1.216 jose 1771: <li><strong>
1772: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
1773: Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
1.236 jose 1774: Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
1.196 matthieu 1775: (<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
1.187 henning 1776: and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
1777: <p>
1778:
1.216 jose 1779: <li><strong>
1780: <a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
1781: Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
1.185 miod 1782: There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
1.413 grunk 1783: CD sets and T-shirts.
1.185 miod 1784: <p>
1.236 jose 1785: </ul>
1.185 miod 1786:
1.161 millert 1787: <h3>2002</h3>
1.236 jose 1788:
1789: <ul>
1790: <li><strong>
1791: <a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
1.216 jose 1792: Congress</a></strong>,
1793: Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
1.236 jose 1794: There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
1795: OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
1.413 grunk 1796: curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
1.184 wvdputte 1797: <p>
1.177 jason 1798:
1.216 jose 1799: <li><strong>
1800: <a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
1801: Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
1.181 henning 1802: OpenBSD people were there;
1.236 jose 1803: Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
1.182 ian 1804: <a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
1805: network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
1.236 jose 1806: and Ian Darwin presented a
1.182 ian 1807: <a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
1808: tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
1.179 pb 1809: <p>
1.178 pb 1810:
1.216 jose 1811: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1812: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
1.216 jose 1813: Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1814: Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
1.177 jason 1815: Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
1816: represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
1817: session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
1818: <p>
1819:
1.216 jose 1820: <li><strong>
1.264 djm 1821: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
1822: Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
1823: Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
1824: Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
1825: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
1826: <a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
1827: <p>
1828:
1829: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 1830: <a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
1831: Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
1.172 miod 1832: Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
1833: Niels Provos presented his
1834: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
1835: system call policy management tool.
1.174 nick 1836: <p>
1.172 miod 1837:
1.216 jose 1838: <li><strong>
1839: <a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
1840: Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
1.171 ian 1841: OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1842: <p>
1843:
1.216 jose 1844: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1845: <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
1.216 jose 1846: Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
1847: May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
1.236 jose 1848: Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
1849: had a chance to prove their value.
1.169 horacio 1850: Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
1.236 jose 1851: on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
1.169 horacio 1852: <p>
1.168 miod 1853:
1.216 jose 1854: <li><strong>
1855: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
1856: Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
1.161 millert 1857: Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
1.162 millert 1858: BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
1859: are available.
1.161 millert 1860: <p>
1861:
1.216 jose 1862: <li><strong>
1863: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
1864: Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
1.163 miod 1865: The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
1866: up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
1867: was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
1868: people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
1869: <p>
1870:
1.216 jose 1871: <li><strong>
1872: <a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
1873: Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
1.164 millert 1874: Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
1875: <strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
1876: The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
1877: <p>
1.236 jose 1878: </ul>
1.164 millert 1879:
1.152 jakob 1880: <h3>2001</h3>
1881:
1.236 jose 1882: <ul>
1.216 jose 1883: <li><strong>
1884: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
1885: Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1886: Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
1.413 grunk 1887: T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
1.160 jufi 1888: <p>
1889:
1.216 jose 1890: <li><strong>
1891: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
1892: Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
1.160 jufi 1893: Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
1894: <p>
1895:
1.158 deraadt 1896: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1897: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
1.216 jose 1898: 2001</a></strong>,
1899: Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.158 deraadt 1900: Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
1901: subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
1902: entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
1903: <p>
1904:
1.216 jose 1905: <li><strong>
1906: <a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
1907: Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
1.156 provos 1908: Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
1909: <p>
1910:
1.201 deraadt 1911: <li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
1.216 jose 1912: Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
1.156 provos 1913: Jakob and Itojun were there.
1914: <p>
1.158 deraadt 1915:
1.150 wvdputte 1916: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1917: <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1918: Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<br>
1.153 jufi 1919: Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
1920: Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
1921: for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
1.150 wvdputte 1922: <p>
1.137 aaron 1923:
1924: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1925: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 1926: Conference</a></strong>,
1927: Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1928: OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1929: Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
1930: with OpenBSD" tutorial.
1931: <p>
1932:
1933: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1934: <a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1935: Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<br>
1.148 brian 1936: OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
1937: and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
1938: <p>
1939:
1940: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1941: <a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
1.216 jose 1942: Exhibition of Korea</a></strong>,
1943: Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.146 krw 1944: urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
1945: and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
1946: <p>
1947:
1948: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1949: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
1.216 jose 1950: Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1951: Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<br>
1.146 krw 1952: OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
1953: <p>
1954:
1955: <li><strong>
1.143 dugsong 1956: <a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
1.201 deraadt 1957: Security OlymFair</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1958: May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<br>
1.143 dugsong 1959: Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
1960: security community.
1961: <p>
1962:
1963: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1964: <a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software
1.216 jose 1965: Developers' Meeting</a></strong>,
1966: Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
1.137 aaron 1967: There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
1968: <p>
1969:
1970: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 1971: <a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1972: Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
1.236 jose 1973: There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
1.137 aaron 1974: <p>
1.236 jose 1975: </ul>
1.137 aaron 1976:
1.132 louis 1977: <h3>2000</h3>
1978:
1.236 jose 1979: <ul>
1.132 louis 1980: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1981: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
1.216 jose 1982: Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
1983: Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<br>
1.134 jufi 1984: Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
1985: shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
1986: <p>
1987:
1988: <li><strong>
1.215 nick 1989: <a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 1990: Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
1.133 deraadt 1991: Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
1992: configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
1993: Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
1994: experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
1.151 jsyn 1995: one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
1.133 deraadt 1996: <p>
1997:
1998: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 1999: <a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
1.216 jose 2000: 2000</a></strong>,
2001: Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
1.236 jose 2002: There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
1.413 grunk 2003: get their T-shirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
1.13 deraadt 2004: <p>
1.4 millert 2005:
1.132 louis 2006: <li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
1.236 jose 2007: <a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">IPsec 2000 Global
1.216 jose 2008: Summit</a></strong>,
2009: Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<br>
1.159 miod 2010: Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPsec architecture
1.132 louis 2011: in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
2012: about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
2013:
2014: <ul>
1.236 jose 2015: <li>The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD<br>
1.215 nick 2016: <a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2017: <a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2018: </ul>
1.4 millert 2019: <p>
1.132 louis 2020:
1.7 deraadt 2021: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2022: <a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2023: Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2024: There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
2025: a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
1.413 grunk 2026: your wardrobe (T-shirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
1.132 louis 2027: mind (drinks afterwards).
2028: <p>
2029:
1.216 jose 2030: <li><strong>
2031: <a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000</a></strong>,
2032: Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2033: David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
2034: questions.
1.32 deraadt 2035: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2036:
1.132 louis 2037: <li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
1.236 jose 2038: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">The Open Source
1.216 jose 2039: Revolution</a></strong>,
2040: Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.133 deraadt 2041: Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
2042: have changed over the last years.
1.1 deraadt 2043: <p>
2044:
1.132 louis 2045: <li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
1.216 jose 2046: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
2047: Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2048: Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
2049: <ul>
1.236 jose 2050: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.132 louis 2051: <a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2052: by Niels Provos.<br>
1.132 louis 2053: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
2054: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
2055: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2056: <p>
1.132 louis 2057:
1.10 provos 2058: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2059: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">Defcon 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2060: Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.236 jose 2061: Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
1.132 louis 2062: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
1.413 grunk 2063: had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, T-shirts, and posters on
1.132 louis 2064: Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
2065: end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
2066: check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
2067: <br>
2068: We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
2069: that they were relying on OpenBSD.
2070: <p>
1.32 deraadt 2071:
1.132 louis 2072: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2073: <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">O'Reilly Open Source
1.216 jose 2074: Conference 2000</a></strong>,
2075: Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<br>
2076: Ian Darwin presented a <a href="papers/oreilly2000/">tutorial</a> on
1.132 louis 2077: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
2078: Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
2079: manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
2080: Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
2081: and spoke about
2082: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
1.241 david 2083: Secure By Default.</a> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
1.132 louis 2084: one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
1.236 jose 2085: after the security talk.
1.3 provos 2086: <p>
1.132 louis 2087:
1.6 deraadt 2088: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2089: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">LinuxTag 2000</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2090: Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<br>
1.132 louis 2091: There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
2092: and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
2093: <br>
2094: Christian Weisgerber gave a
2095: <a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
2096: on BSD</a>.
1.32 deraadt 2097: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2098:
1.216 jose 2099: <li><strong><a name=usenix2000></a>
1.236 jose 2100: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
1.216 jose 2101: Conference.</a></strong>,
2102: Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2103: Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
2104: We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
2105: Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
2106: OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
2107: time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
1.147 jason 2108: and some users even discovered so by themselves.
1.132 louis 2109: Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
2110: had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
2111: <ul>
2112:
2113: <li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
2114: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2115: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<br>
1.132 louis 2116: <a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2117: <a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
2118:
2119: <li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
2120: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.216 jose 2121: by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<br>
1.132 louis 2122: <a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
2123: <a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
1.2 deraadt 2124:
1.132 louis 2125: <li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
2126: <a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
1.205 deraadt 2127: by Craig Metz.
1.132 louis 2128: </ul>
1.2 deraadt 2129: <p>
2130:
1.132 louis 2131: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2132: <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
1.216 jose 2133: Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
2134: Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<br>
1.132 louis 2135: Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
2136: OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
2137: are available from the user group's site.
1.1 deraadt 2138: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2139:
1.132 louis 2140: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2141: <a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference</a></strong>,
2142: Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2143: Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
2144: OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
2145: for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
2146: was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
2147: ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
1.1 deraadt 2148: <p>
1.11 jkatz 2149:
1.17 deraadt 2150: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2151: <a href="http://www.converge2000.com">CONVERGENCE 2000</a></strong>,
2152: May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2153: Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
2154: of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
2155: users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
2156: surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
2157: OpenBSD.
1.21 pattonme 2158: <p>
1.17 deraadt 2159:
1.23 niklas 2160: <li><strong>
1.216 jose 2161: <a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
2162: May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
1.132 louis 2163: Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
2164: what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
1.375 grunk 2165: efforts.
2166: Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
1.216 jose 2167: Marty Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
1.132 louis 2168: at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
2169: leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
2170: base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
1.32 deraadt 2171: <p>
1.25 deraadt 2172:
1.132 louis 2173: <li><strong>
2174: <a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
1.201 deraadt 2175: COMDEX Spring 2000</a></strong>,
2176: Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<br>
1.216 jose 2177: Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
1.132 louis 2178: NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
2179: 75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
2180: explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
1.25 deraadt 2181: <p>
1.23 niklas 2182:
1.31 deraadt 2183: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2184: <a href="http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/">NordU 2000 -- The second
1.216 jose 2185: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2186: Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<br>
1.140 jufi 2187: About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
1.132 louis 2188: OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
2189: As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
2190: about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
2191: improve it.
1.32 deraadt 2192: <p>
1.31 deraadt 2193:
1.201 deraadt 2194: <li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo</strong>,
1.216 jose 2195: Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2196: Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
2197: "Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
2198: href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
2199: There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1.33 niklas 2200: <p>
1.236 jose 2201: </ul>
1.33 niklas 2202:
1.132 louis 2203: <h3>1999</h3>
1.36 niklas 2204:
1.236 jose 2205: <ul>
1.216 jose 2206: <li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
2207: Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2208: Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
1.216 jose 2209: firewalls with OpenBSD. BoF of open source BSDs took place.
1.413 grunk 2210: 2.6 release CDROMs and T-shirts were sold.
1.132 louis 2211: Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
2212: government and military institutions.
1.45 jason 2213: <p>
2214:
1.216 jose 2215: <li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
1.236 jose 2216: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2217: Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
2218: Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2219: Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
2220: solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
2221: starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
2222: There were many other OpenBSD
2223: people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
1.413 grunk 2224: T-shirts. His paper is available at:
1.132 louis 2225:
2226: <ul>
2227: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.236 jose 2228: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1.206 david 2229: by Bob Beck.<br>
1.236 jose 2230: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2231: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2232: </ul>
2233: <p>
2234:
2235: <li><strong>
1.201 deraadt 2236: IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
1.216 jose 2237: Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2238: Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
2239: <p>
2240:
2241: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2242: <a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/">Linux & Open Source
1.216 jose 2243: Software '99</a></strong>,
2244: Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.132 louis 2245: Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
1.236 jose 2246: <a
1.375 grunk 2247: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
1.132 louis 2248: <p>
2249:
2250: <li><strong>
1.705 pvalchev 2251: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1999">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2252: 1999</a></strong>,
2253: Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2254: Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
2255: developers from the east coast attended as well.
2256: <p>
2257:
1.236 jose 2258: <li><strong><a name="ipsec99"></a>
1.216 jose 2259: IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
2260: Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<br>
1.236 jose 2261: A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
1.375 grunk 2262: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2263: products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
2264: were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
2265: authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
2266: time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
2267: appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
2268: conference in Stockholm.
2269: <p>
2270:
2271: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2272: <a href="http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99">AUUG'99</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2273: Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<br>
1.132 louis 2274: Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
2275: and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
2276: coordinated.
2277: <p>
2278:
2279: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2280: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html">Usenix
1.216 jose 2281: Security</a></strong>,
2282: Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2283: Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
2284: shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
2285: very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
2286: significant security roles.
2287: <p>
2288:
2289: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2290: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html">45th IETF
1.216 jose 2291: meeting</a></strong>,
2292: Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<br>
1.132 louis 2293: A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
2294: conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
2295: others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
1.166 miod 2296: the Japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
1.132 louis 2297: his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
2298: <p>
1.45 jason 2299:
1.132 louis 2300: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2301: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2302: Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2303: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
1.413 grunk 2304: and a TON of T-shirts.
1.46 deraadt 2305: <p>
1.132 louis 2306:
1.236 jose 2307: <li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
2308: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
1.216 jose 2309: Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
2310: Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<br>
1.106 jufi 2311: The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
1.46 deraadt 2312: provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
1.106 jufi 2313: of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
2314: release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
1.46 deraadt 2315: June.)
1.132 louis 2316: <br>
1.46 deraadt 2317: Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
1.132 louis 2318: presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
2319:
1.375 grunk 2320: <a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
1.46 deraadt 2321: <ul>
1.66 deraadt 2322: <li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
1.236 jose 2323: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2324: by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2325: <a href="papers/anoncvs-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2326: <a href="papers/anoncvs-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2327: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2328: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.236 jose 2329: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2330: by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<br>
1.236 jose 2331: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2332: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2333: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2334: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.236 jose 2335: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2336: by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
2337: Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<br>
1.236 jose 2338: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2339: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2340: <br>
1.66 deraadt 2341: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.236 jose 2342: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1.216 jose 2343: by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<br>
1.236 jose 2344: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
2345: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.132 louis 2346: </ul>
1.66 deraadt 2347: <p>
1.46 deraadt 2348:
1.51 deraadt 2349: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2350: <a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org">5th Annual Linux Expo</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2351: May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2352: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
2353: OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
2354: at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
2355: vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
2356: to Linux.
1.51 deraadt 2357: <p>
2358:
1.53 jakob 2359: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2360: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html">44th IETF
1.216 jose 2361: meeting</a></strong>,
2362: Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2363: Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
2364: IPSEC developers.
1.53 jakob 2365: <p>
2366:
1.132 louis 2367: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2368: <a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first
1.216 jose 2369: EurOpen/USENIX Conference</a></strong>,
2370: Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2371: A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
2372: society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
2373: security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
2374: security sensitive parts of the system.
1.59 deraadt 2375: <p>
1.236 jose 2376: </ul>
1.59 deraadt 2377:
1.132 louis 2378: <h3>1998</h3>
1.59 deraadt 2379:
1.236 jose 2380: <ul>
1.132 louis 2381: <li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
1.690 nick 2382: IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar</strong>,
2383: Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2384: OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
1.375 grunk 2385: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a>
1.132 louis 2386: implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
2387: successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
2388: specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
2389: and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
1.70 deraadt 2390: <p>
2391:
1.236 jose 2392: <li><strong><a name="lisaboston-98"></a>
1.690 nick 2393: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
1.216 jose 2394: Conference</a></strong>,
2395: Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<br>
1.132 louis 2396: More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
2397: largest representative group from free software at the conference.
2398: Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
1.413 grunk 2399: 2.3 "wire-frame" T-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
2400: "Because security matters..." T-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
1.132 louis 2401: An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
2402: A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
2403: <br>
1.690 nick 2404: The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
2405: had increased since many people, normally wary of security problems of open
1.132 louis 2406: terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
1.72 ho 2407: <p>
2408:
1.73 deraadt 2409: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2410: <a href="http://www.disc.unam.mx/eventos_anteriores/disc98/">DISC - Seguridad en
1.217 jose 2411: Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2412: Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<br>
1.132 louis 2413: Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
1.236 jose 2414: <a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentine
1.132 louis 2415: security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
1.236 jose 2416: of OpenBSD. (<a href="papers/mexico98-slides.ps">Slides are available</a>).
1.131 jufi 2417: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2418:
1.236 jose 2419: <li><strong>IP-dagarna</strong>,
1.690 nick 2420: Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
1.132 louis 2421: At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
2422: OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
2423: protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
2424: an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
2425: primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
1.79 deraadt 2426: <p>
1.73 deraadt 2427:
1.690 nick 2428: <li><strong>NCEE '98</strong>,
1.216 jose 2429: Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2430: An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
1.151 jsyn 2431: sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
1.132 louis 2432: opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
1.80 deraadt 2433: <p>
2434:
1.93 louis 2435: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2436: <a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/1998/">Reflections/Projections
1.216 jose 2437: 1998</a></strong>,
1.236 jose 2438: Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2439: Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
2440: Raymond and others.
1.93 louis 2441: <p>
2442:
1.216 jose 2443: <li><strong>
1.690 nick 2444: <a href="http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/797">O'Reilly and
1.236 jose 2445: Associates Open Source Developer Days</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2446: Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2447: OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
1.413 grunk 2448: other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and T-shirts.
1.96 deraadt 2449: <p>
2450:
1.236 jose 2451: <li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
1.690 nick 2452: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6/defcon-6.html">Defcon 6.0</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2453: Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2454: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
2455: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
2456: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
2457: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
2458: <br>
2459: Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
1.236 jose 2460: at <a href="http://www.monkey.org">monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
1.413 grunk 2461: "wire-frame" OpenBSD T-shirts to the conference and sold almost
1.132 louis 2462: 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
1.96 deraadt 2463: <p>
1.94 deraadt 2464:
1.690 nick 2465: <li><strong><a href="http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-98/bh2-index.html">BlackHat Sessions</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2466: Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2467: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
2468: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
2469: team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
2470: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
2471: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
1.99 deraadt 2472: <p>
2473:
1.236 jose 2474: <li><strong><a name="usenix-neworleans"></a>
2475: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2476: Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2477: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
2478: and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
2479: project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
2480: OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
2481: ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
2482: <br>
2483: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
1.413 grunk 2484: first style of OpenBSD T-shirt also sold quite well.
1.101 wvdputte 2485: <p>
2486:
1.105 wvdputte 2487: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2488: <a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2489: Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2490: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
2491: turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
2492: subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
1.236 jose 2493: (<a href="papers/security98-slides.ps">slides available</a>).
1.105 wvdputte 2494: <br>
1.132 louis 2495: The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
2496: <p>
1.236 jose 2497: </ul>
1.105 wvdputte 2498:
1.132 louis 2499: <h3>1997</h3>
1.107 deraadt 2500:
1.236 jose 2501: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 2502: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2503: <a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2504: Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<br>
1.236 jose 2505: Niels held a
1.690 nick 2506: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/hip97-tcpip.html">talk</a>
1.132 louis 2507: about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
2508: possible solution.
1.113 deraadt 2509: <p>
1.132 louis 2510:
1.236 jose 2511: <li><strong>HOPE</strong>,
1.216 jose 2512: Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<br>
1.166 miod 2513: The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
1.690 nick 2514: OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href="http://www.lopht.com/">L0phT</a>
1.132 louis 2515: people had very good things to say about our security.
1.113 deraadt 2516: <p>
1.105 wvdputte 2517:
1.236 jose 2518: <li><strong><a name="defcon5"></a>
1.690 nick 2519: <a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5/defcon-5.html">Defcon V</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2520: Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
1.132 louis 2521: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
2522: <br>
2523: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.140 jufi 2524: good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
1.690 nick 2525: <a href="http://www.lopht.com">the L0phT</a>.
1.118 deraadt 2526: <p>
2527:
1.125 deraadt 2528: <li><strong>
1.236 jose 2529: <a
2530: href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
1.216 jose 2531: Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<br>
1.690 nick 2532: Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", i.e. a meeting of people
1.132 louis 2533: interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
1.236 jose 2534: </ul>
1.125 deraadt 2535:
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