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<h2><font color="#e00000">Events</font></h2>
OpenBSD developers, users and sponsors attend trade shows and conferences,
give papers, and organize "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>
<h3>2005</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a name=linuxworldexpogermany2005></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo Germany</a></strong>,
Nov 15 - 17, 2005, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, booth slaves wanted.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=eurobsdcon2005></a>
<a href="http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon 2005</a></strong>,
Nov 25 - 27, 2005, Basel, Switzerland.<br>
The EuroBSDCon will be held every year now, so we are looking for
people who want to help out during the event.<br>
The program has been published now and includes a
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/tutorials-reyk.php>tutorial by Reyk about
OpenBSD-based Wireless Networks</a> and talks by
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-brauer.php>Henning Brauer with
Wilhelm Bühler</a>,
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-ryan.php>Ryan McBride</a>,
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-herrb.php>Matthieu Herrb and
Matthias Hopf</a>,
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-jeker.php>Claudio Jeker</a>,
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-niallo.php>Niall O'Higgins & Uwe Stuehler</a> and
<a href=http://www.eurobsdcon.org/conference-tedu.php>Ted Unangst</a>.
<p>
There will be an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=22c3></a>
<a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2005/">22C3 Chaos Communication Congress in
Berlin</a></strong>,
December 27 - 30, 2005, Berlin, Germany.<br>
Join the many OpenBSD developers and users for a Xmas break in a unique setting
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<h2>Past events:</h2>
<h3>2005</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a name=opencon2005></a>
<a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCON 2005</a></strong>,
Nov 4 - 6, 2005, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.<br>
The only unique conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, held in the totally
crazy environment of San Servolo island: an old insane asylum turned into a
university about 20 years ago, about 10 minutes boat ride from Venice.
In the days leading up to this, about 12 OpenBSD developers arrived early
for a Ports mini-hackathon. During the conference a few developers gave
talks, including Marc Espie,
<a href="papers/ven05-henning">Henning Brauer</a>,
Uwe Stuehler, Niall O'Higgins,
<a href="papers/ven05-pvalchev">Peter Valchev</a>,
and <a href="papers/ven05-deraadt">Theo de Raadt</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=systems2005></a>
<a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
Oct 24 - 28, 2005, Munich, Germany <br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=auug2005></a>
<a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/">AUUG 2005</a></strong>,
October 16 - 21, 2005, Sydney, Australia.<br>
Mark Uemura presented a tutorial on setting up CARP/PF, a demonstration of
stateful failover with CARP and pfsync and a talk on wireless security in
a corporate environment using authpf and isakmpd. Peter Hansteen gave a
<a href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/">Firewalling with PF</a> tutorial.
Damien Miller presented on the approach to
<a href="papers/auug2005-portability">secure software portability used
by portable OpenSSH</a>, Reyk Flöter gave a talk on the current state of wireless
support in OpenBSD and David Purdue introduced OpenBSD's spamd tarpit.
Most of the Australian OpenBSD developers and many users were present.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=aldil2005></a>
<a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre
2005</a></strong>,
Oct 14 - 15, 2005, Lyon, France.<br>
There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Alexandre Anriot with the
help of Thierry Thomas.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=cafeconf2005></a>
<a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/">CaFeConf 2005,
4tas Jornadas Abiertas de GNU/Linux y Software Libre</a></strong>,
Oct 13 - 15, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina<br>
CaFeConf 2005 is the anual event of CaFeLUG - Free Software Users
Group of Capital Federal, Argentina. This year the event featured
116 presentations consisting of talks, tutorials, and workshops. The
event was also broadcasted on the Internet. Entrance was free, but
registration was mandatory.<br>
Fernando Gont gave a talk on
<a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=147&cid=20">
ICMP attacks against TCP</a>,
in which he gave an overview of the attacks, the possible
counter-measures, and the politics of vulnerabilities, and a talk on
<a href="http://www.cafeconf.org/modules/myconference/viewspeech.php?sid=173&cid=20">
Fixing the vulnerability of the Path-MTU Discovery mechanism</a>,
in which explained how OpenBSD fixed the vulnerability of the PMTUD
mechanism.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=linuxkongress2005></a>
<a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/">12th International Linux System
Technology Conference</a></strong>,
Oct 11 - 14, 2005, University of Hamburg, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=linuxworlduk2005></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/">LinuxWorld Expo UK 2005</a></strong>,
Oct 5 - 6, 2005, Olympia, London, UK.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=opensourcetag2005></a>
<a href="http://www.opensourcetag.de/">OpenSourceTag 2005</a></strong>,
Sep 27, 2005, Hannover, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth and Reyk gave a
<a href=http://www.opensourcetag.de/agenda/>talk</a> about IT security.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="gubuginstallfest2005"></a>
<a href="http://gubug.org/meetings.php">Greater Utah BSD Group
Installfest 2005</a></strong>,
Sep 24, 2005, Sandy, UT, USA.<br/>
<a href=http://www.gubug.org/>The Greater Utah BSD User Group</a> organised
their first annual BSD Installfest, sponsored by Utah ISP ArosNet.
There were handouts, CD-ROMs, technical presentations, and
fun, plus a chance to get OpenBSD or a related open source BSD operating system
installed on your computer.
Admission was free (computers not included in cost of admission).
Featured speakers included Dan Langille, organizer of BSDCan.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="NYCBSDCon2005"></a>
<a href="http://nycbsdcon.org/">New York City BSD Conference 2005</a></strong>,
Sep 17, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
NYCBSDCon was a one day technical conference hosted by the New York
City *BSD User Group and was held at Columbia University.
The all day conference included a variety of speakers representing the
BSD projects and the open source community.<br>
NYCBSDCon was organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed in
December 2003. Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and contributed a
number of useful online applications such as BSDTracker and dmesgd.<br>
Additional sponsors included USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=opensaar2005></a>
<a href="http://www.opensaar.de/">OpenSaar 2005</a></strong>,
Sep 13 - 14, 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
An OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth was present
<p>
<li><strong><a name=decix160905></a> <a
href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
Sep 16, 2005, Schloss Kransberg, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
Henning Brauer, Reyk Flöter and Maxim Salomon had been invited to the
technical meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) again.
Henning gave an update on OpenBGPD, Reyk talked about a route server project
using OpenBGPD at DE-CIX, and Maxim explained why the CCC sponsors us doing so.
There was a very positive discussion afterwards.
<a href="http://unduli.bsws.de/papers/decix2005-2/">Slides</a> are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="ukuug2005"></a>
<a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/">UKUUG Linux Technical
Conference 2005</a></strong>,
Aug 4 - 7, 2005, University of Wales, Swansea, UK<br>
Tom Cosgrove gave Theo's presentation about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=wth2005></a>
<a href="http://www.whatthehack.org/">What the Hack 2005</a></strong>,
Jul 28 - 31, 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands.<br>
As every 4 years, Wim organized the
<a href="http://eurobsd.org/2005-WhatTheHack/">BSD village</a> at this huge
open air event. There were some talks, Reyk spoke about
<a href="http://program.whatthehack.org/event/6.en.html">WLAN in OpenBSD</a>,
and an excellent
<a href="ftp://ftp.nyc.openbsd.org/pub/news/wth-radio-humppa.mp3">Humppa show</a> (35MB MP3) was performed on the SubEther radio.
If you want to see what happened previously, check
<a href="http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/">http://eurobsd.org/hal2001/</a>
and <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/">http://www.eurobsd.org/SummerCamp2003/</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=coimbra2005></a>
<a href="http://www.openbsd-pt.org/eventos/coimbra05/">Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup Meeting</a></strong>,
Jul 23 - 24, 2005, Coimbra, Portugal.<br>
5th Meeting of the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup. Pedro Martelletto gave a talk,
<a href="http://ambientworks.net/~pedro/coimbra-html/">slides</a>, in
Portuguese, are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="lsm2005"></a>
<a href="http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org/sections/index_html/switchLanguage/en">Libre Software Meeting 2005</a></strong>,
Jul 5 - 9, 2005, Dijon, France.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim and the usual
suspects, with the help of Serge Basterot. It was a nice place to meet
some of our French, German and Swiss developers, including Marc Balmer,
Alexandre Anriot, Matthieu Herrb and Reyk Floeter.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2005></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2005</a></strong>,
Jun 22 - 25, 2005, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth ran by Wim, Christian Weisgerber,
Marc Balmer, Wilhelm Buehler, Robert Nagy, Bernd Ahlers and Phil Schulz.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="uofa-cc2005"></a>
<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/CC2005"> University of Alberta, Campus
Computing 2005</a></strong>, Jun 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada.<br>
Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF, with CARP and
failover examples. Local color and examples at the U of A shown by Bob
Beck. Bob Beck spoke about PF and Spamd, as well as several other
OpenBSD using and related talks at this event, which primarily focuses
on activities centered at the University of Alberta.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=uemera2005></a>
<a href="http://www.tokyopc.net">Tokyo PC Users Group</a></strong>,
Jun 2, 2005, Tokyo Union Church in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
Mark T. Uemura spoke to Japan's largest English speaking
personal computer club. The talk was entitled
<a href="http://www.openbsd-support.com/jp/en/htm/mgp/index.shtml">
"Open Source in a Windows World"</a>.
He demonstrated how companies can easily
integrate Open Source, with an emphasis on OpenBSD, into their IT
infrastructure to enhance security, scalability and stability,
significantly reduce IT expenditures, free up computing infrastructure
and move away from commercial lock-in. This talk is based on changes
implemented at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Japan.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2005></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2005</a></strong>,
May 24 - 27, 2005, Vienna, Austria.<br>
The Linuxwochen 2005 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer were running an OpenBSD booth selling
CDs and shirts.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=cuug2005></a>
<a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users Group</a></strong>,
May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.<br>
Ryan McBride spoke about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF.
A broad overview of PF's features were presented, with special attention
paid to newer and more unique features and how these can be used together
effectively for DoS mitigation, high availability, and load balancing.
<br>
Approximately 60 OpenBSD developers attended to heckle and participate
in a free-for-all question period after the talk.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=bsdcan2005></a>
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/">BSDCan 2005</a></strong>,
May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
A number of OpenBSD developers presented: Bob Beck on
Spam Reduction with PF and Spamd, Henning Brauer on OpenBGPD,
Ryan McBride on Network Stack Randomness and Reyk Flöter
on WLAN in OpenBSD and the free ath(4) HAL. The
<a href="papers/bsdcan05-spamd/">Spamd</a> and
<a href="papers/bsdcan05-wlan/">WLAN</a> slides are available.
Mathieu Sauve-Frankel has been there in attendance as well.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=csw2005></a>
<a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">cansecwest/core05</a></strong>,
May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.<br>
Hiroaki Etoh spoke about propolice; Theo de Raadt and a number of other
developers were there to sell CDs and make a nuisance of themselves.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=ripe50></a>
<a href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-50/">RIPE 50</a></strong>,
May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD.
There were over 350 attendees to the conference, and most of them attended
henning's talk, which got very very positive feedback.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=libreast2005></a>
<a href="http://idile.org/libreast/">Libr'east 2005</a></strong>,
Apr 22-24, Marne La Vallée, near Paris, France<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth (Wim + Miod + Marc)
Marc Espie did talk about recent OpenBSD advances, and his ports and
packages work in front of about 30 people.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=decix150405></a> <a
href="http://www.de-cix.org/">DE-CIX Technical Meeting</a></strong>,
Apr 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.<br>
Henning Brauer and Reyk Flöter had been invited to the technical
meeting of the Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX). Henning
presented his talk on OpenBGPD, about 60 people, mostly operators from
the big ISPs peering at DECIX, were in attendance.
Reyk, Maxim Salomon and Tim Kornau spoke on Wireless Network Security.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=nuug140405></a>
<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20050414-pf-brannmur/">Firewalling with PF at NUUG</a></strong>,
Apr 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.<br>
Peter N. M. Hansteen gave a firewalling with PF talk - which hopefully
gave you some ideas about how to control your network traffic the
way you want - keeping some things outside your network, directing
traffic to specified hosts or services, and of course, giving spammers
a hard time. The talk was in Norwegian, with <a
href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/foils/">foils</a> and <a
href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/no/">manuscript</a> (English <a
href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/foils/">foils</a> and <a
href="http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/">manuscript</a> too)
available if you couldn't make it there.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=usenix2005></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/">Usenix Annual
Technical Conference</a></strong>, Apr 10-15, 2005, Anaheim,
California, USA.<br> Marius Eriksen gave the OpenBSD update at the BSD
super BoF. The update was well received and people were quite
sympathetic towards the ongoing efforts of the OpenBSD project to
ensure the free redistribution rights for firmware. People were also
excited about the new Open* tools (OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenCVS) and it
would not be surprising to see more of these imported into other BSDs.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=fhwedel130405></a>
<a href="http://www.fh-wedel.de/">FH Wedel invited talk</a></strong>,
Apr 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.<br>
Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=plug080405></a>
<a href="http://www.plugfr.org/">Provence Linux User Group</a></strong>,
Apr 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS
13004, Marseille, France.<br>
Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke
about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a
*BSD meeting. The <a href="papers/plug080405">slides</a>
(in French) are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=bcs2005></a>
<a href="http://www.bellua.com/bcs2005/asia05.index.html">Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005</a></strong>,
Mar 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.<br>
Ryan McBride presented an overview of PF which
discussed how its advanced features work together in some important
applications and compared PF with the other major commercial and open
source firewalls.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=nui_maynooth2005></a>
<a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/events">NUI Maynooth lectures</a></strong>,
Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about
<a href="papers/dublin05-nr">randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.</a><br>
Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=trinity2005></a>
<a href="http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/events/0405/openbsd.php">Trinity lecture</a></strong>,
Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
<a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=ShefLUG2005></a>
<a href="http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar/tiki-index.php?page=Sheffield%20Open%20Source%20Seminar">ShefLUG2005</a></strong>,
Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.<br>
Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=NYCBUG2005-03></a>
<a href="http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=Home&SUBM=83">NYCBUG Monthly meeting</a></strong>,
Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.<br>
Mickey gave a talk
(<a href="papers/nyc2005">slides</a> and
<a href="http://peachisland.com.nyud.net:8090/nycbug/nycbug-03-02-05.mp3">10.5MB audio</a>)
about <a href="hppa.html">porting OpenBSD</a>
to the <a href="http://www.openpa.net">HP PA-RISC</a> platform.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Netsoc2005></a>
<a href="http://netsoc.ucd.ie/events/openbsd/">Netsoc lectures</a></strong>,
Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.<br>
Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of
talks. Topics included
<a href="papers/auug04">exploit mitigation techniques</a>,
<a href="papers/dublin05-nr">introducing network randomness to increase security</a>,
OpenBGPD, and pf.
Almost 200 people came to this event.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Brussels2005></a>
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2005/">FOSDEM Brussels 2005</a></strong>,
Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects.
Support for <a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim Vandeputte</a> this time were
(among many others), Saad Kadhi, Henning Brauer, Thierry Deval, Otto Moerbeek,
Xavier Santolaria, Martin Reindl, Reyk Flöter, Hans-Jörg
Höxer, Nikolay Sturm, Marc Balmer, Claudio Jeker, Joris Vink,
Olivier Cherrier, David Berghoff,
Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.<br>
There was a separate OpenBSD track, featuring Henning Brauer (about
signal handlers and OpenNTPD), Reyk Flöter (about wireless cards in
OpenBSD), and the author of the OpenBSD PF book, Jacek Artymiak (about
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>, of course).<br>
At the conference's Free Software Foundation Event, Theo de Raadt was
awarded the Free Software Award 2004 for his efforts to make Firmware for
wireless hardware and other devices freely available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=UKUUG05></a>
<a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/">UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference</a></strong>,
Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.<br>
Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=FFG2005></a>
<a href="http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/">GUUG FFG 2005</a></strong>,
Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.<br>
Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in
OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the <a href="http://www.guug.de/">German Unix User Group</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Paris2005></a>
<a href="http://www.solutionslinux.fr/fr/index.php">Solutions Linux 2005</a></strong>,
Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.<br>
An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present. These booths
were run by Marc Espie, Miod Vallat, Saad Kadhi and Wim with help from
Guillaume Arcas and Christophe Plasschaert, two members of the OpenBSD
french translation team.<br>
Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a
special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The <a
href="papers/sl2005/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are
available.<br>
During the event, several demonstrations of <a
href="http://soekris.kd85.com/">Soekris</a> machines running OpenBSD
were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.
<p>
</ul>
<h3>2004</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a name=21C3></a>
<a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/">21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress</a></strong>,
Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany<br>
"The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including
<a href="mailto:wim@kd85.com">Wim</a>,
Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage,
Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.<br>
Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD
(<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/21c3/">slides</a>).<br>
The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered
<a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> machines as access points,
work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others.
This installation was a very successful test of the new
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">ath(4)</a>
driver.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=icos2004></a>
<a href="http://2004.icos.org.tw/">ICOS 2004</a></strong>,
Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.<br>
Kevin Lo gave a presentation.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=syscan2004></a>
<a href="http://www.syscan.org/">SyScAN 2004</a></strong>,
Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.<br>
Theo de Raadt presented his talk about
<a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=sur200412></a>
<a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/calendrier/index.shtml">SUR Group Meeting, December 2004</a></strong>,
Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly
meeting of the
<a href="http://www.ossir.org/sur/index.shtml">SUR</a> Group (Sécurité
Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The
<a href="papers/surgroup200412/index.html">slides</a> (in French) are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=opencon2004></a>
<a href="http://www.opencon.org/">OpenCon 2004</a></strong>,
Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.<br>
OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in
two days, on bgpd
(<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/bgpd/">slides</a>),
ntpd
(<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/opencon04/ntpd/">slides</a>)
and signal handlers
(<a href="papers/opencon04/">slides</a>).
Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=UofA></a>
<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">U of A Seminar</a></strong>,
Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.<br>
Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the
<a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>, in
Room B-02 of the
<a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/map_bldg.cfm?bldg_id=42">
Computing Sciences Center</a>.
Talk went from 2 PM to nearly 5PM with more than 100 people attending
from the University and industry, followed by beer nearby.
The talk was also given the following day at the
<a href="http://www.cips.ca/">CIPS Security SIG</a> luncheon.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=EuroBSDCon2004></a>
<a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSD Con</a></strong>,
Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
Henning gave a talk
about <a href="http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html?&tx_ptspeechupload_pi1[showUid]=44&cHash=ec015b0552">bgpd</a>,
<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/euroBSDCon2004/">slides</a> are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxWorldExpoGermany2004></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/">Linux World Expo</a></strong>,
Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=cuug2004></a>
<a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/">Calgary Unix Users's Group</a></strong>,
Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.<br>
Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and
Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".
<p>
<li><strong><a name=aldil2004></a>
<a href="http://www.aldil.org/">Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004</a></strong>,
Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.<br>
There was OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Miod Vallat with the help of
Alexandre Anriot and Thierry Thomas.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=systems2004></a>
<a href="http://www.systems.de/">Systems</a></strong>,
Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany <br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=linuxexpo2004oct></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo</a></strong>,
Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=hitb2004></a>
<a href="http://conference.hackinthebox.org">Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004</a></strong>,
Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<br>
Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his
"Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=SANE2004></a>
<a href="http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2004/bazaar.html">SANE 2004</a></strong>
, Sep 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxKongress2004></a>
<a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2004">Linux Kongress 2004</a></strong>,
Sep 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.<br>
From their website: "Linux-Kongress is still the premier event for European
developers and one of the most important in the world. Each year hundreds of
hard core Linux enthusiasts from all over the world gather for this important
event."
<br>
Although this was a Linux developers' conference, we were able to
install a regular OpenBSD booth there, as known from other events.
It was run by <a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>,
<a href="mailto:grunk@pestilenz.org">Alexander von Gernler</a> and other
geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
<br>
There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Sucon2004></a>
<a href="http://www.suug.ch/sucon/04/">SUCON 2004</a></strong>,
Sep 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference.
Henning's slides from his talks about
<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/bgpd">bgpd</a> and
<a href="http://bulabula.org/papers/sucon04/ntpd">ntpd</a>
are available.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=auug2004></a>
<a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/">AUUG 2004</a></strong>,
Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.<br>
Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a
newly extended version of the
<a href="papers/auug04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a> talk.<br>
For more information, see this
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;517187222;fp;16;fpid;0">
ComputerWorld article</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LSM2004></a>
<a href="http://lsm.abul.org">Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
Jul 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxTag2004></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org">LinuxTag 2004</a></strong>,
Jun 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.<br>
There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim Vandeputte</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon"</strong>,
Jun 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada<br>
Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development
session.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=LinuxwochenVienna2004></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen Vienna 2004</a></strong>,
May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.<br>
The Linuxwochen 2004 tour stopped in the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
Wim Vandeputte and Reinhard Sammer ran the OpenBSD booth. Michael Bauer
and Teemu Schaabl from the <a href="http://www.cngw.org/">CNGW</a> gave
a basic talk about pf.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=BSDCan2004></a>
<a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2004/">BSDCan 2004</a></strong>,
May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.<br>
BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan04-pf/index.html">about newer features in pf</a>,
focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync.
Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on
<a href="papers/bsdcan04">Exploit Mitigation Techniques</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="LOSFAnkara2004"></a>
<a href="http://senlik.linux.org.tr">3rd Linux and Open Source Festival</a></strong>,
May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
Can E. Acar and Berk D. Demir talked about the OpenBSD Project. The
philosophy, project goals, system features and recent proactive
security features were introduced. CARP, patents, recent Apache &
XFree86 licensing issues and effects of NDAs in open source
projects were discussed.<br>
You can view the
<a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.pdf">
slides in PDF format</a> the
<a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD-LOYS2004-cea-bdd.tex">
LaTeX source</a> is also available (they are
<a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/">mirrored</a>, as well).
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Brussels2004></a>
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM Brussels 2004</a></strong>,
Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.<br>
An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, run by Wim Vandeputte.
Several developers (including Henning Brauer, Xavier Santolaria, Thierry Deval,
Philipp Bühler, Otto Moerbeek and Saad Kadhi) showed up.
Wim and Alexander von Gernler gave "lightning talks" about Soekris
and systrace
(<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2004/FOSDEM/systrace.pdf">slides</a>), respectively.
Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
(<a href="http://www.2suck.net/papers/fosdem2004/">slides</a>).
On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Paris2004></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/">Linux Expo Paris 2004</a></strong>,
Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.<br>
An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
<a href="mailto:saad@docisland.org">Saad Kadhi</a> and
<a href="mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="LWE04"></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn">LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo</a></strong>, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.<br>
<a href="mailto:wes@openlysecure.org">Wes Sonnenreich</a> and others
have established a BSD user group in NYC and held a BSD BoF at the
Jacob Javits Center on January 22nd at 5:45pm, Room 1E15.
<p>
</ul>
<h3>2003</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a name=20c3></a>
<a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2003/">20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003</a></strong>,
Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.<br>
OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
<a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>, and supported by Henning and
Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
<a href="http://pestilenz.org/~grunk/vortraege/2003/20C3/openbsd.pdf">talk</a>
introducing the project and the OS (in German).
<p>
<li><strong><a name=brazil2003></a>
<a href="http://bsdcon.myfreebsd.com.br">1st BSDCon Brazil</a></strong>,
Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br>
This was the first BSDCon Brazil, and of course OpenBSD was present.
Douglas Santos spoke on advocacy and about some of the technical aspects
of OpenBSD. Eduardo A. Alvarenga gave a presentation about firewalling
with OpenBSD PF.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=ankara03></a>
<a href="http://seminer.linux.org.tr">Association of Turkish Linux User</a></strong>,
Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.<br>
Can Acar and Berk Demir gave a mammoth 4 hour presentation on OpenBSD.
The first part was a broad introduction to the OpenBSD philosophy, the
project goals, and system features. After a break, in the second part they
talked about the exploit mitigation techniques employed in OpenBSD. This
part was aimed at techies and is almost a complete Turkish translation of
the talk Theo recently gave in Japan. You can view the
<a href="http://bdd.mindcast.org/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">
slides in PDF format </a>
(they are <a href="http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/slides/OpenBSD_3.12.2003.can-bdd.pdf">mirrored</a>, as well).
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Luxembourg2003></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxday.lu/">Linuxday Luxembourg 2003</a></strong>,
Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.<br>
Booths were present, organized by <a href= "mailto:wim@openbsd.org">Wim</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Pacsec2003></a>
<a href="http://pacsec.jp/">Pacsec 2003</a></strong>,
Nov 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.<br>
Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
<a href="papers/pacsec03/e/index.html">(English)</a>
<a href="papers/pacsec03/j/index.html">(Japanese)</a>, Jun-ichiro
itojun Hagino presented material covering
<a href="http://www.itojun.org/paper/itojun-200311-pacsec-jp/">
IPv6 security considerations</a>, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
in Internet worm defenses.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Lyon2003></a>
<a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/">Les V<sup>èmes</sup> Journées du Libre 2003</a></strong>,
Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.<br>
Miod Vallat gave a talk about the recent security efforts deployed in OpenBSD,
as well as generic security concepts (slides, in bad French, are available in
<a href="http://www.aldil.org/agenda/journees/2003/vallat/miod.mgp">mgp
format</a>). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
as well as <a href="http://soekris.kd85.com">Soekris</a> hardware running
OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=Saarbrucken2003></a>
<a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2003/index.html">Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003</a></strong>,
Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.<br>
An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=London2003></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/">Linux Expo London 2003</a></strong>,
Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.<br>
An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=bsdcon2003></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/">BSDCon '03</a></strong>,
Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.<br>
OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=sucon2003></a>
<a href="http://www.sucon.ch/">SUCON '03</a></strong>,
Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.<br>
Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and <a
href="http://open.bsdcow.net/events/sucon2003/">pictures are available</a>.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=camp2003></a>
<a href="http://www.ccc.de/camp/">Chaos Communication Camp 2003</a></strong>,
Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in <a href="http://www.paulshof.de/body-mehr.html">a field</a> near Berlin Germany<br>
There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=sec2003></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/">Usenix Security</a></strong>,
Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.<br>
Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
Several OpenBSD developers were there.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=linuxtag2003></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/index.html">LinuxTag 2003</a></strong>,
Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany<br>
Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=lsm2003></a>
<a href="http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/">Libre Software Meeting 2003</a></strong>,
Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France<br>
Matthieu Herrb gave <a href="papers/xf86-sec.pdf">a talk about XFree86 security</a>. There was
also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=lud2003></a>
<a href="http://www.linuxuserexpo.com/">Linux User & Developer Expo 2003</a></strong>,
Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
<p>
<li><strong><a name=usenix2003></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/">Usenix Annual Technical
Conference</a></strong>,
Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA<br>
A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
<ul>
<li>The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework<br>
<a href="events.html#usenix2003">Usenix 2003</a>, by
Angelos D. Keromytis,
Jason L. Wright, and
Theo de Raadt.<br>
<a href="papers/ocf.pdf">paper</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon"</strong>,
May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada<br>
Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
session.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.webb.it/">Webbit 2003</a></strong>,
May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy<br>
Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
<a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20030503101052">related talks</a> were given.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest 03</a></strong>,
Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada<br>
Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
available as a <a href="papers/csw03.mgp">magicpoint file</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.cebit.de/">CeBIT 2003</a></strong>,
Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany<br>
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
gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. <a href="papers/cebit2003.tgz">slides</a> are available.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxforum.dk/2003/english/">LinuxForum 2003</a></strong>,
Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen<br>
Daniel spoke about PF (slides in <a href="papers/linuxforum2k3.tar.gz">mgp</a>,
<a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/linuxforum/">HTML</a>).
It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
user groups.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca">CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
Group</a></strong>,
Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary<br>
OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt spoke about some of the recent
changes in OpenBSD that are leading the way to the complete elimination of
"buffer overflow" security risks and attacks.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">FOSDEM 2003</a></strong>,
Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels<br>
Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
(<a href="papers/fosdem2k3-pf.mgp">slides</a>)
and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://linuxsolutions.fr/FR/home/index.php?site=default">Linux Solutions</a></strong>,
Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
CD sets and T-shirts.
<p>
</ul>
<h3>2002</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.ccc.de/congress/2002/">19c3: the 19th CCC
Congress</a></strong>,
Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin<br>
There was a huge <a href="http://www.eurobsd.org/19c3">reserved space</a> for
OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD T-shirts.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/">BSDCon Europe 2002</a></strong>,
Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br>
OpenBSD people were there;
Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
<a href="papers/tuning-openbsd.ps">
network performance tuning on OpenBSD</a>,
and Ian Darwin presented a
<a href="papers/eurobsd-firewalls-2002.pdf">
tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA '02: 16th Systems
Administration Conference</a></strong>,
Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA<br>
Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
represented) and sold <a href="32.html">3.2</a> CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
session on <a href="32.html">3.2</a> and future.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.auug.org.au/events/2002/auug2002/">Australian Unix Users
Group Winter Conference</a></strong>,
Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia<br>
Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the
<a href="papers/auug2002-ssh/index.html">SSH protocol</a> and
<a href="papers/auug2002-ssh.ps">OpenSSH tips and tricks</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://lsm.abul.org">The 3rd Libre Software Meeting</a></strong>,
Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France<br>
Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
Niels Provos presented his
<a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace">systrace</a>
system call policy management tool.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.Webb.it">Webb.it 02</a></strong>,
Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy<br>
OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/forum">The Annual International
Free Software Forum</a></strong>,
May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil<br>
Mainly a Linux/GNU event, but this year the BSD Operating Systems
had a chance to prove their value.
Edson Brandi spoke on FreeBSD, Diego Linke
on NetBSD, and Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira on OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/">BSDCON 2002</a></strong>,
Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA<br>
Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
BSD panel discussion. The <a href="slides/bsdcon_2002/index.html">slides</a>
are available.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com">Linux expo Paris 2002</a></strong>,
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France<br>
The french Linux Expo 2002 was quite small and as usual the OpenBSD booth ended
up with others on the expo's side. On the first day, almost all the merchandise
was sold, and we have even sold older versions (2.9) the following days to
people who wouldn't leave without a cd set in their hands...
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://musess.mcmaster.ca/">MUSESS 2002</a></strong>,
Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada<br>
Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
<strong>Fix The Bugs, Secure The System</strong>.
The <a href="slides/musess_2002/index.html">slides</a> are available.
<p>
</ul>
<h3>2001</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa01/">USENIX LISA 2001</a></strong>,
Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<br>
Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
T-shirts and 3.0 CDs.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-52.html">52nd IETF</a></strong>,
Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA<br>
Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.disc2000.unam.mx/disc/index-ing.html">DISC
2001</a></strong>,
Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico<br>
Once again, Theo de Raadt explained the security auditing process and
subsequent secure configuration choices made in OpenBSD, in a talk
entitled "Updated thoughts on writing a secure Operating System".
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linux.org.hk">LinuxCafe</a></strong>,
Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China<br>
Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
<p>
<li><strong>VPN Bakeoff</strong>,
Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland<br>
Jakob and Itojun were there.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL 2001</a></strong>,
Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands<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</a></strong>,
Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea<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</a></strong>,
Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA<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</a></strong>,
May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea<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</a></strong>,
Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxexpoparis.com/">2001 Linux Expo</a></strong>,
Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
<p>
</ul>
<h3>2000</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2000/">LISA 2000, USENIX
Systems Administration Conference</a></strong>,
Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA<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</a></strong>,
Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico<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</a></strong>,
Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL<br>
There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
get their T-shirts, 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</a></strong>,
Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France<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<br>
<a href="#ipsec2000">IPsec 2000 Global Summit</a> by Niels Provos.<br>
<a href="papers/ipsec-slides.ps">slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://ApacheCon.Com/2000/EU/">ApacheCon Europa 2000</a></strong>,
Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK<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 (T-shirts, 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</a></strong>,
Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA<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</a></strong>,
Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden<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</a></strong>,
Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA<br>
Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
<ul>
<li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
<a href="#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>
by Niels Provos.<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</a></strong>,
Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<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, T-shirts, 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</a></strong>,
Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany<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>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">Usenix Annual Technical
Conference.</a></strong>,
Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA<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 Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.<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 Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.<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 Craig Metz.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/calendar.html">OpenBSD: The Open
Source Secure Operating System</a></strong>,
Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK<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</a></strong>,
Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada<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</a></strong>,
May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada<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>
<a href="http://www.cansecwest.com/">CanSecWest</a></strong>,
May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada<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),
Marty 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</a></strong>,
Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA<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</a></strong>,
Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden<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</strong>,
Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA<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>
</ul>
<h3>1999</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>The Bazaar</strong>,
Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA<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>
<li><strong><a name=lisa99></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa99/">13th Systems Administration
Conference (LISA 99)</a></strong>,
Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA<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 Bob Beck.<br>
<a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
<a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
IP-dagarna 1999</strong>,
Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<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</a></strong>,
Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<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">IPsec</a> for securing communications.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference">Reflections/Projections
1999</a></strong>,
Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<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>
IPsec Interoperability tests</strong>,
Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)<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">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</a></strong>,
Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia<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</a></strong>,
Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway<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</a></strong>,
Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<br>
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
and a TON of T-shirts.
<p>
<li><strong><a name="usenix99"></a>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/index.html">
Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA<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:
<a name="anoncvs_paper"></a>
<ul>
<li>Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.<br>
<a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.<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 Niels Provos, David Mazieres.<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 Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.<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 Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.<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</a></strong>,
May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA<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</a></strong>,
Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA<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</a></strong>,
Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden<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>
</ul>
<h3>1998</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong><a name=ipsec98></a>
<a href="http://www.netman.se/kurs/96.html">IPsec/VPN Interoperability
tests & seminar</a></strong>,
Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<br>
OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">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>
<a href="http://usenix.org/events/lisa98">LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
Conference</a></strong>,
Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts<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
Cómputo 98</a></strong>,
Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City<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 Argentine
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</strong>,
Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)<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</a></strong>,
Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA<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</a></strong>,
Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA<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</a></strong>,
Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA<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>
<li><strong><a name="defcon98"></a>
<a href="http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html">Defcon VI</a></strong>,
Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<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>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/index.html">Usenix Annual Technical Conference</a></strong>,
Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA<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>
</ul>
<h3>1997</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.hip97.nl">HIP</a></strong>,
Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands<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</strong>,
Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA<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</a></strong>,
Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.<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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