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<h2><font color=#e00000>Events</font></h2>
OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
give papers, and organise "Birds Of a Feather" (BOF) sessions.
This is an opportunity to find out more about OpenBSD or just meet like
minded people.
<hr>
<h2>Future events:</h2>
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<h3>2001</h3>
<li><strong>VPN Bakeoff, Finland, August 13-18 2001</strong><br>
Jakob and Itojun will be there.
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<h2>Past events:</h2>
<dl>
<h3>2001</h3>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.hal2001.org>HAL 2001. August 2001. Twente, Netherlands</a>
</strong><br>
Quite a lot of developers were there, we even had our own tent.
Niels, Rees and Dugsong held talks, more info on the main website
for HAL2001. And of course T-Shirts and CDROMs were sold.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/">O'Reilly Open Source Conference,
July 23-27, San Diego, California, USA</a>
</strong><br>
OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
with OpenBSD" tutorial.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.defcon.org">DEF CON Nine, July 13-15, Las Vegas, USA</a>
</strong><br>
OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.sek.co.kr/sek2001/sek_html/main.htm">Software
Exhibition of Korea, June 26-29, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
</strong><br>
urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix01/">2001 USENIX Annual
Technical Conference, June 25-30, 2001, Boston, USA.</a>
</strong><br>
OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.olymfair.org/eng/workshop.htm">Information
Security OlymFair, May 16-18, 2001, Seoul, Korea.</a>
</strong><br>
Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
security community.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.osdem.org/">2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3-4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium.</a>
</strong><br>
There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1-2, 2001, Paris, France.</a>
</strong><br>
There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
<p>
<h3>2000</h3>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000,
USENIX Systems Administration Conference, December 3-8, 2000, New Orleans, USA.</a>
</strong><br>
Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">
DISC 2000. November 26 - December 1, 2000. Mexico City, Mexico.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and subsequent secure
configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk entitled "Secure by Default".
Over the next few days, he also participated in two panels with various security
experts who had flown in from around the world. Following this, Theo climbed
one of the largest volcanoes, called Malinche.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/nj2000">
NLUUG Najaarsconferentie 2000. November 9, 2000. Ede, NL.</a></strong><br>
There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=ipsec2000></a>
<a href="http://www.upperside.fr/baipsecy2k.htm">
IPSec 2000 Global Summit. October 24-27, 2000.
Paris La Defense, France.</a></strong><br>
Niels Provos ended the conference by speaking about the IPSec architecture
in OpenBSD. The talk was well received and many people were very interested
about our cryptographic hardware acceleration.
<ul>
<li>The IPSec Architecture in OpenBSD</a><br>
<a href="#ipsec2000">IPSec 2000 Global Summit</a>
by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
<a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">
ApacheCon Europa 2000. October 23-25, 2000. London, UK.</a></strong><br>
There was an OpenBSD booth where people could drop by for information and
a chat with the local OpenBSD personnel. We also had the essentials for
your wardrobe (Tshirts, polos, caps), for your hardware (2.7 CDs) and for your
mind (drinks afterwards).
<p>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.bsdcon.com/">BSD Con 2000.
October 18-20, 2000. Monterey, CA, USA.</a></strong><br>
David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
questions.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=opensource2000></a>
<a href="http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens">
The Open Source Revolution. October 5, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
have changed over the last years.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=sec2000></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec2000/">
Usenix Security. August 14-17, 2000. Denver, Colorado, USA.</a></strong><br>
Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
<ul>
<li>Encrypting Virtual Memory</a><br>
<a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
<a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
<a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-8-post.html">
Defcon 2000. July 28-30, 2000. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
Kjell Wooding (our ipf maintainer), James Phillips from the
<a href="http://www.deadly.org">OpenBSD Journal</a>, and Theo de Raadt
had a table and were selling OpenBSD CDROMs, tshirts, and posters on
Friday and Saturday. Hordes of people visited our table and we at the
end we were completely sold out of CDROMS and shirts (allowing us to go
check out Hoover Dam's hardhat tour on Sunday and leave the madness behind).
<br>
We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
that they were relying on OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/">
O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2000,
July 17-20, 2000. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
Ian Darwin presented a <a href=papers/oreilly2000/>tutorial</a> on
<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_tutorials.html">
Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>, and bravely
manned the OpenBSD booth for the remainder of the show.
Kjell Wooding took part in a panel discussion on the Future of the BSDs,
and spoke about
<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/w/bsd_presentations.html">
Secure By Default.</A> Both sessions were well attended, and at least
one Linux sysadmin was seen racing for a keyboard, scared look in his eyes,
after the security talk.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/">
LinuxTag 2000,
June 29-July 2, 2000. Stuttgart, Germany.</a></strong><br>
There was a BSD booth where we had the first <a href="27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 CDs</a> for Europe
and the new blue stitchwork <a href="tshirts.html#11">Blowfish Polo</a> shirt.
<br>
Christian Weisgerber gave a
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.de/2000/english/conference/talks.php3?ID=3">talk
on BSD</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a name=usenix2000>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
Almost 20 OpenBSD developers showed up for the 25th anniversary of Usenix.
We had a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
Conference attendees had the opportunity to test drive the new release,
OpenBSD 2.7, on the 30 workstations in the terminal room. For the first
time ever, the terminal room and wavelan networks also had a IPv6 connection,
and some users even discovered so by themselves.
Theo also held a BoF on the Wednesday evening, after which the developers
had almost too much singing in foreign languages with the help of helium.
<ul>
<li>Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.<br>
<a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
<a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>.<br>
<a href="papers/ikepaper.ps">paper</a> and
<a href="papers/ikeslides.ps">slides</a>.
<li>Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.<br>
<a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
by <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
<a href="mailto:jason@openbsd.org">Jason L. Wright</a>.<br>
<a href="papers/bridgepaper.ps">paper</a> and
<a href="papers/bridgeslides.ps">slides</a>.
<li>Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.<br>
<a href="#usenix2000">Usenix 2000</a>
by <a href="mailto:cmetz@openbsd.org">Craig Metz</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">
OpenBSD : The Open Source Secure Operating System.
June 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK.</a></strong><br>
Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
OpenSSH 2.1. His <a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/20000617/">slides</a>
are available from the user group's site.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="reprints/crypto2000.html">
OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference.
June 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada.</a></strong><br>
Repeating the tradition of a similar meeting held last year, many
OpenBSD developers from around the world converged on Calgary
for a weekend long hack-and-drink session. As before, the event
was invitation only. Many significant things got done, including
ipv6 + ipsec running over hardware crypto devices.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
CONVERGENCE 2000.
May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt participated in a panel discussion about the pros and cons
of using Open Source software in various business environments. The local
users also handed out OpenSSH and OpenBSD posters, and were absolutely
surprised and amazed by the number of Calgary companies quietly using
OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong>
CanSecWest.
May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</strong><br>
Theo de Raadt spoke about why programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes,
what types of efforts might improve this, and how this all relates to auditing
efforts. Rain Forest Puppy, Ron Gula (Network Security Wizards), Ken Williams (E&Y),
March Roesch (snort/HiverWorld), and Fyodor (nmap) were among the other speakers
at this event. (On a personal note: at this conference Theo realized that three
leading Network Intrusion Detection System companies use OpenBSD as their
base operating system: Hiverworld, Network Security Wizards, and NFR).
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.zdevents.com/comdex/spring2000/">Linux Business Expo /
COMDEX Spring 2000, April 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA.</a></strong><br>
Louis Bertrand represented OpenBSD at a BSD BOF with FreeBSD/BDSI,
NetBSD and Apple (Darwin is BSD-derived). The BOF was attended by about
75 people, many of whom were new to *BSD. It was an opportunity to
explore future cooperation among the various BSD groups and companies.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.<br>
As well, Theo de Raadt gave an invited talk on Wednesday morning
about why software quality/security suffers, and what we can do to
improve it.
<p>
<li><strong>BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA),
Thursday February 3, 2000.</strong><br>
Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
"Birds Of a Feather" session at the <a
href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/">New York LinuxWorld Expo</a>.<br>
There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
<p>
<h3>1999</h3>
<li>
<strong>
The Bazaar.
December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
firewalls with OpenBSD.
BoF of open source BSDs took place.
2.6 release CDROMs and t-shirts were sold.
Emphatic interest has been shown by representatives from press, international
government and military institutions.
<p>
<a name=lisa99>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/>
13th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 99)
November 7-12, 1999 Seattle, Washington, USA</a></strong><br>
Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the technical sessions
starting at 11:00 AM on the 11th.<br>
There were many other OpenBSD
people at this conference as well, as well as a booth selling CDROMs and
t-shirts. His paper is available at:
<ul>
<li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
<a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
<a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
<a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
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IP-dagarna 1999
October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</strong><br>
Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.opensource-forum.com/konferens/>
Linux & Open Source Software '99
October 21, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
<a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>
IPsec</a> for securing communications.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
Reflections/Projections 1999
October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
developers from the east coast attended as well.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=ipsec99></a>
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IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
(in swedish)</strong><br>
A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
<a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
products, both gateways and hosts, for interoperability. The tests
were successful as far as general IPsec and pre-shared key
authentication went, OpenBSD interoperated with everyone, but due to
time constraints we never got to test the certificate support
appropriately. The results were presented later that fall at a
conference in Stockholm.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
AUUG'99.
September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
coordinated.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
Usenix Security.
August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><br>
Many OpenBSD people from the east coast showed up and sold CDs and
shirts. It was pretty clear from discussions that many people were
very aware of OpenBSD, and that OpenBSD was being used in very
significant security roles.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99jul/index.html>
45th IETF meeting.
July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><br>
A number of OpenBSD team members from all over the world were at this
conference. In addition to attending the IPsec and DNS working groups (among
others) we did IPsec/IKE interoperability testing together with
the japanese KAME project. Also, Angelos D. Keromytis did a presentation on
his work with keynote and isakmpd in OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
Defcon 6.0. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
and a TON of tshirts.
<p>
<a name=usenix99>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html>
Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a>
provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
of CDs of OpenBSD 2.5. (We distributed the
release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
June.)
<br>
Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
<ul>
<a name=anoncvs_paper></a>
<li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
<a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
by <a href=mailto:chuck@openbsd.org>Charles D. Cranor</a>,
<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
<a href=papers/anoncvs-paper.ps>paper</a> and
<a href=papers/anoncvs-slides.ps>slides</a>.
<br>
<li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
<a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
<a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
<a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
<a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
<br>
<li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
<a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
<a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
<a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
<a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
<a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
<a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
<a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
<br>
<li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
<a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
<a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
<a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
5th Annual Linux Expo.
May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><br>
Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference selling OpenBSD 2.5 CDs,
OpenBSE T-shirts, as well as Blowfish T-shirts, which sold out very quickly
at a table donated by the Expo. OpenBSD was the only BSD represented at the
vendor exposition, and we had good chance to present a secure alternative
to Linux.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/index.html>
44th IETF meeting.
March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><br>
Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
IPSEC developers.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.europen.se/NordU99">NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><br>
A couple of OpenBSD team members were there and some of the swedish user
society as well. OpenBSD CDs were sold at a booth and at the end of a
security talk, the project got applauded for its continuous strive of auditing
security sensitive parts of the system.
<p>
<h3>1998</h3>
<li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
<a href=http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html>IPsec/VPN Interoperability
tests & seminar, December 14, 1998.
Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><br>
OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
<a href=http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4&format=html>IPsec</a>
implementations who were tested for interoperability. The tests were
successful, both for the technology in general, and for OpenBSD in
specific. We managed to communicate encrypted with every vendor present,
and to negotiate keys via IKE with everyone capable.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a name=lisaboston-98>
<a href=http://usenix.org/events/lisa98>LISA '98:
12th Systems Administration Conference
December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.</a></strong><br>
More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
largest representative group from free software at the conference.
Usenix gave us a table in the vendor area where we sold 2.4 CDROMs,
2.3 "wire-frame" t-shirts, and the new 2.4 embroidered
"Because security matters..." t-shirts, polos, and sweaters.
An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
<br>
The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously trust in OpenBSD
had increased since many people,normally wary of security problems of open
terminal rooms, were seen using the machines.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.asc.unam.mx/disc98">DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98:
November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
<a href=http://www.core-sdi.com>CORE SDI S.A.</a>, an Argentinian
security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
of OpenBSD. (<a href=papers/mexico98-slides.ps>Slides are available</a>).
<p>
<li><strong>
IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
</strong><br>
At this conference, entirely devoted to IP, Niklas Hallqvist from the
OpenBSD team held a talk on the IKE (a.k.a ISAKMP/Oakley) key management
protocol and experiences from the implementation of <strong>isakmpd</strong>,
an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">NCEE '98.
October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><br>
An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
sales of shirts and CDROMs left much to be desired, we did have good
opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections 1998.
October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
Raymond and others.
<p>
<li><strong><a href=http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly
and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose,
California, USA.</strong></a>
<br>
OpenBSD team members were on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
other free software projects available. They also sold some CDs and t-shirts.
<p>
<a name=defcon98>
<li><strong><a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>Defcon VI.
July 31 - Aug 2, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
The router to the outside world was an OpenBSD 2.3 box. It was involved
in a "capture the flag" competition in which an entire room of crackers
attempted to break into it and machines running other operating systems.
The OpenBSD box was not broken into.
<br>
Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
at <a href=http://www.monkey.org>monkey.org</a> brought 2.3
"wire-frame" OpenBSD t-shirts to the conference and sold almost
200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.
<p>
<li><strong><a href=http://www.blackhat.com>
BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt presented a talk entitled
"Auditing software for security" about the OpenBSD security auditing
team's process and the lessons the team learned. The talk concentrated
on how our process fixes bugs -- not just holes -- since one never knows
when 5 bugs will act together to become a hole.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a name=usenix-neworleans>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html>
Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
June 15-19, 1998. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.</a></strong><br>
At Usenix 1998 there was a strong OpenBSD presence both in the Freenix
and normal tracks. Theo did a general talk about what the OpenBSD
project offers. Angelos held a panel about IPSEC (which is quite an
OpenBSD topic since IPSEC development at that time was so much further
ahead in OpenBSD than anywhere else).
<br>
The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><br>
At this conference, Theo presented an evening talk which basically
turned into a list of fixed security problems and cautionary tales about
subsystems in which future problems may be encountered
(<a href=papers/security98-slides.ps>slides available</a>).
<br>
The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
<p>
<h3>1997</h3>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
</strong><br>
Niels held a
<a href=http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/provos/hip97-tcpip.html>talk</a>
about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
possible solution.
<p>
<li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><br>
The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstations running
OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the <a href=http://www.l0pht.com>L0phT</a>
people had very good things to say about our security.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=defcon5></a>
<a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><br>
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
<br>
Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
<a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/ana97/index.html>
Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.</a></strong><br>
Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
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