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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>
<dl>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.dursec.com">
CanSecWest.
May 10-12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.</a></strong><p>
Theo de Raadt is speaking about security issues.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.converge2000.com">
CONVERGENCE 2000.
May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.</a></strong><p>
Theo de Raadt will be participating in a panel discussion about
the pros and cons to using Open Source software in various business
environments.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix2000/">
Usenix Annual Technical Conference.
June 18-23, 2000. San Diego, California, USA.</a></strong><p>
We have a vendor booth, as well as a number of papers being presented.
(More information on the papers at a later time).
<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><p>
Theo de Raadt will be speaking on
<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/sessions/bsd.html#459">
Security By Default.</A>
Ian Darwin will be presenting a tutorial on
<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/tutorials/bsd.html#264">
Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD</a>.
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<hr>
<h2>Past events:</h2>
(Most recent events are at the end of the list.)
<dl>
<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><p>
Theo de Raadt held a BOF ("Birds Of a Feather", ie. a meeting of people
interested in the same thing) about OpenBSD.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-5.html>
Defcon V. July 11-13, 1997. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
<p>
Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
good things about our stance on security... particularily people like
<a href=http://www.l0pht.com>the L0phT</a>.
<p>
<li><strong>HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.</strong><p>
The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstation 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 href=http://www.hip97.nl>HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands</a>
</strong><p>
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>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/index.html>
Usenix Security. January 26-29, 1998. San Antonio, Texas, USA</a></strong><p>
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>).
<p>
The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.2.
<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><p>
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).
<p>
The terminal room PC's 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.blackhat.com>
BlackHat Sessions. July 29-30, 1998. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
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>
<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><p>
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.
<p>
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://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html>O'Reilly and Associates Open Source Developer Days. August 21, 1998. San Jose, California, USA.</strong></a>
<p>
OpenBSD team members will be on-hand to discuss OpenBSD's role among the
other free software projects available as well as sell CDs and t-shirts.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
Reflections/Projections 1998
October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><p>
Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
Raymond and others.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href="http://www.nceexpo.com/">
NCEE '98. October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.</a></strong><p>
An extensive after-action report was sent to advocacy@openbsd.org. While
sales of shirts and CDROM's left much to be desired, we did have good
opportunities to further project visibility and highlight its strengths.
<p>
<li><strong>
IP-dagarna, October 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
</a></strong><p>
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>
Isakmpd will be shipped with OpenBSD after 2.4 is released.
<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><p>
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>
<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><p>
More than 10 OpenBSD team members showed up. By far, OpenBSD was the
largest representative group from free software at the conference.
<p>
Usenix donated 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.
<p>
An OpenBSD BOF was held one evening, led by Theo de Raadt.
<p>
The terminal room ran OpenBSD 2.4 on 45 machines. Obviously people's
trust in OpenBSD has increased, since numerous people who have not
used the Usenix terminal room (due to security problems that have come
from such use in the past) before were seen using the machines.
<p>
A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.
<p>
<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 href=http://www.europen.se/NordU99>
NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.</a></strong><p>
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>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-44.html>
44th IETF meeting.
March 15-19, 1999. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA</a></strong><p>
Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
IPSEC developers.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.linuxexpo.org>
5th Annual Linux Expo.
May 18-22, 1999. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.</a></strong><p>
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>
<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><p>
OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.
Some OpenBSD developers are presenting papers in the Freenix track.<p>
The <a href="http://www.usenix.org">USENIX Association</a> recently
provided The OpenBSD Project with a grant to underwrite the production
of CDs of its newest release, OpenBSD 2.5. (We will be distributing the
new release for free to attendees of the USENIX Annual Conference in
June.)
<p>
Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:`
<p>
<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>.
<p>
<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>.
<p>
<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>.
<p>
<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>.
<p>
</ul>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-6.html>
Defcon VII. July 9-11, 1999. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.</a></strong><p>
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
and a TON of tshirts.
<p>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-45.html>
45th IETF meeting.
July 12-16, 1999. Oslo, Norway</a></strong><p>
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>
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.usenix.org/events/sec99/index.html>
Usenix Security.
August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.</a></strong><p>
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.auug.org.au/winter/auug99>
AUUG'99.
September 8-11, 1999. Melbourne, Australia.</a></strong><p>
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 name=ipsec99></a>
<a href=http://ip-dagarna.netman.se/interoptest.asp>
IPsec Interoperability tests September 27-30, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
(in swedish)</a></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 will be presented later this fall at a
conference in Stockholm, at that event we hope to finish the
certificate tests.
<p>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference>
Reflections/Projections 1999
October 8-10, 1999. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.</a></strong><p>
Theo de Raadt will be speaking at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
developers from the east coast will also attend.
<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><p>
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://ip-dagarna.netman.se/>
IP-dagarna 1999
October 27-28, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)</a></strong><p>
Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
<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><p>
Bob Beck presented a paper about the U of A's nifty OpenBSD based
solution to the problem of public Ethernet jacks in the techincal 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:<p>
<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>
<a href=http://thebazaar.org>
The Bazaar.
December 14-16, 1999. New York, New York, USA.</a></strong><p>
Wes Sonnenreich and Tom Yates presented a tutorial on building
firewalls w/ 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>
BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo, New York (USA), Thursday February 3, 5:30-8:30PM.
</a></strong><p>
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>
<li><strong>
<a href=http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/>
NordU 2000 -- The second EurOpen/USENIX Conference.
February 8-11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden.</a></strong><p>
About 15 OpenBSD team members attented.
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>
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