Events
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.
Future events:
2004
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BSDCan 2004,
May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.
BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus on emerging
technologies, research projects, and works in progress. It also
features userland infrastructure projects and invites contribution
from both free software developers and those from commercial vendors.
BSDCan will be held at the University of Ottawa.
Past events:
2004
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FOSDEM Brussels 2004,
Feb 21 - 22, 2004, Brussels, Belgium.
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
(slides), respectively.
Henning got a slot in the main track to talk about the new bgpd
(slides).
On Saturday evening, the traditional OpenBSD dinner took place.
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Linux Expo Paris 2004,
Feb 3 - 5, 2004, Paris, France.
An OpenBSD booth as well as an OpenSSH booth were present, thanks to
Saad Kadhi and
Wim.
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LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo, Jan 20 - 23, 2004, New York, NY, USA.
Wes Sonnenreich 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.
2003
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20th Chaos Communication Congress 2003,
Dec 27 - 29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.
OpenBSD was represented by a booth, ran by
Wim, and supported by Henning and
Alexander von Gernler. Alexander also gave a
talk
introducing the project and the OS (in German).
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1st BSDCon Brazil,
Dec 6 - 7, 2003. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
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Association of Turkish Linux User,
Dec 4, 2003, Ankara, Turkey.
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
slides in PDF format
(they are mirrored, as well).
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Linuxday Luxembourg 2003,
Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Booths were present, organized by Wim.
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Pacsec 2003,
November 6 - 7, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.
Three OpenBSD developers presented on various topics. Theo de Raadt
gave a presentation on Exploit Mitigation Techniques
(English)
(Japanese), Jun-ichiro
itojun Hagino presented material covering
IPv6 security considerations, and Jose Nazario discussed advances
in Internet worm defenses.
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Les Vèmes Journées du Libre 2003,
Oct 31 - Nov 1, 2003, Lyon, France.
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
mgp
format). As usual, Wim ran an OpenBSD booth featuring the new 3.4 release,
as well as Soekris hardware running
OpenBSD.
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Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003,
Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.
An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.
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Linux Expo London 2003,
Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.
An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.
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BSDCon '03,
Sep 8 - 12, 2003, San Mateo, California.
OpenBSD was represented in the BSD Status Report, and David Rosenthal
gave a talk on an OpenBSD based security appliance.
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SUCON '03,
Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.
Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and pictures are available.
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Chaos Communication Camp 2003,
Aug 7 - 10, 2003, in a field near Berlin Germany
There was a huge OpenBSD village. Several OpenBSD developers have been there.
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Usenix Security,
Aug 4 - 8, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.
Niels Provos presented two papers on security advances originally
developed for OpenBSD, including the OpenSSH privsep feature and systrace.
Several OpenBSD developers were there.
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LinuxTag 2003,
Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany
Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.
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Libre Software Meeting 2003,
Jul 9 - 12, 2003, Metz, France
Matthieu Herrb gave a talk about XFree86 security. There was
also an OpenBSD booth with developers.
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Linux User & Developer Expo 2003,
Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK
There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.
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Usenix Annual Technical
Conference,
Jun 9 - 14, 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA
A few OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
- The Design of the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework
Usenix 2003, by
Angelos D. Keromytis,
Jason L. Wright, and
Theo de Raadt.
paper.
- OpenBSD c2k3 "Hackathon",
May 9 - 19, 2003, Calgary, Canada
Over 50 developers congregated in Calgary for a 10 day long development
session.
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Webbit 2003,
May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy
Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD
related talks were given.
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CanSecWest 03,
Apr 9 - 11, 2003, Vancouver, Canada
Theo spoke about killing buffer overflows using ProPolice and the new W^X technology,
available as a magicpoint file.
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CeBIT 2003,
Mar 14, 2003, Hannover, Germany
You could have found our booth in Halle 6, A53/068. Friday, Henning and Markus
gave a talk on OpenBSD and OpenSSH. slides are available.
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LinuxForum 2003,
Mar 1, 2003, Copenhagen
Daniel spoke about PF (slides in mgp,
HTML).
It was a small but cozy conference, jointly held by Danish Linux and BSD
user groups.
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CUUG - The Calgary Unix Users
Group,
Feb 25, 2003, 18:00 MST, Calgary
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.
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FOSDEM 2003,
Feb 8 - 9, 2003, Brussels
Henning and Philipp gave a talk on -current PF developments
(slides)
and on Saturday evening, there was an OpenBSD dinner for those interested.
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Linux Solutions,
Feb 4 - 6, 2003, CNIT - Paris La Défense
There was an OpenBSD booth with several OpenBSD developers, as well as 3.2 OpenBSD
CD sets and Tshirts.
2002
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19c3: the 19th CCC
Congress,
Dec 27 - 29, 2002, Berlin
There was a huge reserved space for
OpenBSD users and developers, a couple of -current test systems and for those
curious, a first look at the 3.2 OpenBSD Tshirts.
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BSDCon Europe 2002,
Nov 15 - 17, 2002, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OpenBSD people were there;
Philipp Bühler and Henning Brauer spoke about
network performance tuning on OpenBSD,
and Ian Darwin presented a
tutorial on OpenBSD servers/firewalls.
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LISA '02: 16th Systems
Administration Conference,
Nov 3 - 8, 2002, Philadelphia, USA
Mickey and Jason manned the booth at the vendor expo (the only BSD
represented) and sold 3.2 CDs, and Jason gave a BoF
session on 3.2 and future.
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The 3rd Libre Software Meeting,
Jul 9 - 13, 2002, Bordeaux, France
Several OpenBSD developers and users were attending the meeting, and
Niels Provos presented his
systrace
system call policy management tool.
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Webb.it 02,
Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy
OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
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The Annual International
Free Software Forum,
May 2 - 4, 2002, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil
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.
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BSDCON 2002,
Feb 11 - 14, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA
Todd Miller gave an update on current OpenBSD status and participated in a
BSD panel discussion. The slides
are available.
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Linux expo Paris 2002,
Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2002, Paris, France
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...
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MUSESS 2002,
Jan 25 - 26, 2002, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Louis Bertrand gave a presentation on OpenBSD titled
Fix The Bugs, Secure The System.
The slides are available.
2001
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USENIX LISA 2001,
Dec 2 - 7, 2001, San Diego, California, USA
Niels Provos gave a presentation, and there's been a booth selling
tshirts and 3.0 CDs.
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52nd IETF,
Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.
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DISC
2001,
Nov 26 - 29, 2001, Mexico City, Mexico
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".
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LinuxCafe,
Sep 15, 2001, Hong Kong, China
Shell Hung gave an introduction for BSD and demonstration of OpenBSD to HKLUG.
- VPN Bakeoff,
Aug 13 - 18, 2001, Finland
Jakob and Itojun were there.
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HAL 2001,
Aug 10 - 12, 2001, Twente, Netherlands
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.
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O'Reilly Open Source
Conference,
Jul 23 - 27, 2001, San Diego, California, USA
OpenBSD had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
Ian Darwin presented his "Firewalls and Secure Internet Servers
with OpenBSD" tutorial.
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DEF CON Nine,
Jul 13 - 15, 2001 Las Vegas, USA
OpenBSD developers and users make it a point to attend every year,
and had a table selling CD's, shirts, etc.
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Software
Exhibition of Korea,
Jun 26 - 29, 2001, Seoul, Korea
urisecure/NDS sponsored an OpenBSD booth with CD's, posters,
and a live demo of OpenBSD's IPSEC hardware acceleration.
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2001 USENIX Annual
Technical Conference,
Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA
OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.
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Information
Security OlymFair,
May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea
Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean
security community.
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2001 Open Source and Free Software
Developers' Meeting,
Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium
There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.
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2001 Linux Expo,
Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France
There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.
2000
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LISA 2000, USENIX
Systems Administration Conference,
Dec 3 - 8, 2000, New Orleans, USA
Wim Vandeputte and other volunteers have been running a sales table with
shirts, posters and the brand new 2.8 CDs.
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DISC 2000,
Nov 26 - Dec 1, 2000, Mexico City, Mexico
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.
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NLUUG Najaarsconferentie
2000,
Nov 9, 2000, Ede, NL
There was an OpenBSD booth where people dropped by for information or to
get their Tshirts, polos, caps and 2.7 CDs.
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IPsec 2000 Global
Summit,
Oct 24 - 27, 2000, Paris La Defense, France
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.
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ApacheCon Europa 2000,
Oct 23 - 25, 2000, London, UK
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).
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BSD Con 2000,
Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA
David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering
questions.
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The Open Source
Revolution,
Oct 5, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden
Theo de Raadt spoke about how user expectations for security out of the box
have changed over the last years.
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Usenix Security,
Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA
Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
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Defcon 2000,
Jul 28 - 30, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Kjell Wooding (our IPF maintainer), James Phillips from the
OpenBSD Journal, 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).
We were completely amazed at the people who stopped by our table, to say
that they were relying on OpenBSD.
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O'Reilly Open Source
Conference 2000,
Jul 17 - 20, 2000, Monterey, California, USA
Ian Darwin presented a tutorial on
Secure Internet Servers/Firewalls with OpenBSD, 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
Secure By Default. 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.
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LinuxTag 2000,
Jun 29 - Jul 2, 2000, Stuttgart, Germany
There was a BSD booth where we had the first OpenBSD 2.7 CDs for Europe
and the new blue stitchwork Blowfish Polo shirt.
Christian Weisgerber gave a
talk
on BSD.
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Usenix Annual Technical
Conference.,
Jun 18 - 23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA
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.
- Implementing Internet Key Exchange, IKE.
Usenix 2000
by Angelos D. Keromytis, Niklas Hallqvist.
paper and
slides.
- Transparent Network Security Policy Enforcement.
Usenix 2000
by Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason L. Wright.
paper and
slides.
- Safety Checking of Kernel Extensions.
Usenix 2000
by Craig Metz.
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OpenBSD: The Open
Source Secure Operating System,
Jun 17, 2000, 14:00. Manchester, UK
Sam Smith gave a rundown of features coming in OpenBSD 2.7 and
OpenSSH 2.1. His slides
are available from the user group's site.
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OpenBSD Crypto 2000 conference,
Jun 15 - 20, 2000, Calgary, AB, Canada
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.
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CONVERGENCE 2000,
May 18, 2000. Convention Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.
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CanSecWest,
May 10 - 12, 2000. Robson Conference Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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).
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Linux Business Expo /
COMDEX Spring 2000,
Apr 19, 2000, Chicago, IL, USA
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.
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NordU 2000 -- The second
EurOpen/USENIX Conference,
Feb 8 - 11, 2000. Malmo, Sweden
About 15 OpenBSD team members attended.
OpenBSD CDs and shirts were sold at a booth donated by the conference.
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.
- BSD BOF session, LinuxWorld Expo,
Feb 3, 2000, New York, USA
Representatives from OpenBSD, BSDi, and FreeBSD hosted a
"Birds Of a Feather" session at the New York LinuxWorld Expo.
There were installation CD-ROMs, free food, and even free Daemon Horns!
1999
- The Bazaar,
Dec 14 - 16, 1999, New York, New York, USA
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.
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13th Systems Administration
Conference (LISA 99),
Nov 7 - 12, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA
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.
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:
- Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.
LISA 1999,
by Bob Beck.
paper and
slides.
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IP-dagarna 1999,
Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
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Linux & Open Source
Software '99,
Oct 21, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
IPsec for securing communications.
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Reflections/Projections
1999,
Oct 8 - 10, 1999, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
developers from the east coast attended as well.
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IPsec Interoperability tests,
Sep 27 - 30, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
A dozen vendors, among them OpenBSD, tested more than 15
IPsec
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.
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AUUG'99,
Sep 8 - 11, 1999, Melbourne, Australia
Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
coordinated.
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Usenix
Security,
Aug 23 - 26, 1999, Washington, DC, USA
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.
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45th IETF
meeting,
Jul 12 - 16, 1999, Oslo, Norway
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.
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Defcon 6.0,
Jul 9 - 11, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
and a TON of tshirts.
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Usenix Annual Technical Conference,
Jun 6 - 11, 1999, Monterey, California, USA
The USENIX Association
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.)
Usenix team members were involved in the authoring and
presentation of 4 OpenBSD-related papers:
- Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS.
Usenix 1999,
by Charles D. Cranor, Theo de Raadt.
paper and
slides.
- A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.
Usenix 1999,
by Niels Provos, David Mazieres.
paper and
slides.
- Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.
Usenix 1999,
by Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski,
Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos.
paper and
slides.
- strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.
Usenix 1999,
by Todd C. Miller, Theo de Raadt.
paper and
slides.
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5th Annual Linux Expo,
May 18 - 22, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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.
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44th IETF
meeting,
Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
IPSEC developers.
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NordU99 -- The first
EurOpen/USENIX Conference,
Feb 9 - 12, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
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.
1998
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IPsec/VPN Interoperability
tests & seminar,
Dec 14, 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)
OpenBSD was represented as one of about a dozen
IPsec
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.
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LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration
Conference,
Dec 6 - 11, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts
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.
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.
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DISC - Seguridad en
Cómputo 98,
Nov 2 - 7, 1998, Mexico City
Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
CORE SDI S.A., an Argentine
security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
of OpenBSD. (Slides are available).
- IP-dagarna,
Oct 29, 30 1998, Stockholm, Sweden (in swedish)
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 isakmpd,
an IKE implementation funded by Ericsson Radio Systems and developed
primarily for the OpenBSD IPSEC stack.
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NCEE '98,
Oct 9 - 10, 1998, Auburn, Maine, USA
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.
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Reflections/Projections
1998,
Oct 2 - 4, 1998, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA
Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
Raymond and others.
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O'Reilly and
Associates Open Source Developer Days,
Aug 21, 1998, San Jose, California, USA
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.
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Defcon VI,
Jul 31 - Aug 2, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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.
Almost 100 OpenBSD 2.3 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates
at monkey.org 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.
- BlackHat Sessions,
Jul 29 - 30, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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.
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Usenix Annual Technical Conference,
Jun 15 - 19, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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).
The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The
first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.
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Usenix Security,
Jan 26 - 29, 1998, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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
(slides available).
The terminal room PCs ran OpenBSD 2.2.
1997
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HIP,
Aug, 1997, Almere, Netherlands
Niels held a
talk
about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
possible solution.
- HOPE,
Aug, 1997, New York, New York, USA
The terminal room consisted primarily of DECstations running
OpenBSD 2.1. Once again, the L0phT
people had very good things to say about our security.
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Defcon V,
Jul 11 - 13, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.1 release CDROMs.
Since this is the primary security conference, many speakers said very
good things about our stance on security... particularly people like
the L0phT.
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Usenix Annual Technical Conference,
Jan 6 - 10, 1997, Anaheim, California, USA.
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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