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                     16: <h2>Conferences and other Events.</h2>
1.8       deraadt    17: <hr>
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                     19: <h2>Past events:</h2>
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                     21: <ul>
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1.6       deraadt    23: <li><strong>
                     24: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
                     25: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
                     26: January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.4       millert    27:
                     28: <p>
1.7       deraadt    29: <li><strong>
                     30: <a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
                     31: Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.1       deraadt    32: At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
                     33: Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
1.4       millert    34: good things about our stance on security...
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1.6       deraadt    37: <li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
                     38: The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstation running
                     39: OpenBSD 2.1.
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1.6       deraadt    42: <li><strong>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</strong><br>
1.3       provos     43:
                     44: <p>
1.6       deraadt    45: <li><strong>
                     46: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
                     47: Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio</a></strong><br>
1.2       deraadt    48: At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically turned
1.6       deraadt    49: into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about subsystems
                     50: in which future problems may be encountered.
                     51: The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.2.
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                     53: <p>
1.6       deraadt    54: <li><strong>
                     55: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
                     56: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
1.8       deraadt    57: June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.6       deraadt    58: At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
                     59: and normal tracks.  The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.3.<p>
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                     61: We sold many CDROMs.  The first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
1.2       deraadt    62:
                     63: <p>
1.6       deraadt    64: <li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
1.8       deraadt    65: BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.2       deraadt    66: Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
                     67: "Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
                     68: team's process and the lessons the team learned.  The talk concentrated
                     69: on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
                     70: when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
                     71:
1.1       deraadt    72: <p>
1.6       deraadt    73: <li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org>
1.7       deraadt    74: Defcon VI. July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.6       deraadt    75: The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box.  It was involved
                     76: in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
                     77: attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
                     78: The OpenBSD box was not broken into.<p>
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                     80: Almost 100 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again).  The primates at <a
                     81: href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought the second style of
                     82: OpenBSD t-shirt to the conference and sold almost 200 of them.  The
                     83: proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
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1.1       deraadt    85: <p>
1.6       deraadt    86: <li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>
                     87: OSSD. August 21, 1998. San Jose, California, USA.</strong></a><br>
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1.8       deraadt    90: <h2>Future events:</h2>
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                     94: <p>
                     95: <li><strong>
1.9     ! deraadt    96: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
        !            97: Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
        !            98: June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.8       deraadt    99: OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
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                    102: <li><strong>
1.9     ! deraadt   103: <a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
        !           104: Usenix Security.
        !           105: August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
1.8       deraadt   106: OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
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