Events

Future events:

2005

• RIPE 50, May 2-6, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.
  RIPE NCC invited Henning to talk about OpenBGPD, likely on the 3rd. RIPE Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity to take part in Internet policy discussions.

• cansecwest/core05, May 4-6, 2005, Vancouver, Canada.
  There will be a number of OpenBSD developers in attendance, including Theo de Raadt and Ryan McBride. We'll have early access 3.7 CDs to sell, and Ryan McBride may be presenting a talk on Network Stack Randomness: how it protects against known and unknown attacks, and details of OpenBSDs implementation.

• BSDCan 2005, May 13 - 14, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
  A number of OpenBSD developers will be presenting: 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. Expect to find other OpenBSD developers in attendance as well.

• Calgary Unix Users Group, May 24, 2005, Calgary, Canada.
  Ryan McBride will speak about OpenBSD's packet filter, PF. A broad overview of PF's features will be 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.
  The other major PF developers will also be in attendance and available to answer questions: Bob Beck (Edmonton) who did spamd, Mike Frantzen (USA) who did the state engine, Daniel Hartmeier (Switzerland) who started it all, Markus Friedl (Germany) who helped develop the grammar, and Henning Brauer (Germany) who integrated PF with ALTQ bandwidth shaping and pushed us to fix some early load problems, and Theo de Raadt who deleted that non-free Australian junk and created the opportunity for this crazy bunch of people to get together.
  There will be brand new OpenBSD 3.7 CDs and tshirts and posters for sale at this event.....

• Segundo Congreso Nacional de Software Libre - USUARIA 2005, June 6-7, 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  Theo is (very likely) presenting a keynote about what things should be free.

• University of Alberta, Campus Computing 2005, June 21, 2005, Edmonton, Canada
  Ryan McBride will speak 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 will speak 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.

Past events:

2005

• DE-CIX Technical Meeting, April 15, 2005, near Usingen, Germany.
  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.

• Firewalling with PF at NUUG, April 14, 2005, Oslo, Norway.
  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 foils and manuscript (English foils and manuscript too) available if you couldn't make it there.

• Usenix Annual Technical Conference, April 10-15, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA.
  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.

• FH Wedel invited talk, April 13, 2005, 17:00, Hörsaal 5, FH Wedel, Hamburg, Germany.
  Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD. More than 40 people were in attendance.

• Provence Linux User Group, April 08, 2005, 20:00, PLUG, "La Vie de Quartier", 1, rue Antoine PONS 13004, Marseille, France.
  Alexandre Anriot from the OpenBSD french translation team spoke about OpenBSD and associated projects (OpenBGPD etc.) during a *BSD meeting. The slides (in French) are available.

• Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005, March 21-24, 2005, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  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.

• NUI Maynooth lectures, Mar 4, 2005, Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland.
  Ryan McBride presented talks about PF and about randomization in the OpenBSD network layer.
  Theo and Henning were in attendance because someone had to heckle.

• Trinity lecture, Mar 3, 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
  Theo de Raadt presented his talk about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.

• ShefLUG2005, Mar 2, 2005, Sheffield, UK.
  Jacek Artymiak gave a talk about installing OpenBSD on Soekris hardware.

• NYCBUG Monthly meeting, Mar 2, 2005, NYC, USA.
  Mickey gave a talk (slides and 10.5MB audio) about porting OpenBSD to the HP PA-RISC platform.

• Netsoc lectures, Mar 2, 2005, UCD, Dublin, Ireland.
  Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer, and Ryan McBride gave a series of talks. Topics included exploit mitigation techniques, introducing network randomness to increase security, OpenBGPD, and pf. Almost 200 people came to this event.

• FOSDEM Brussels 2005, Feb 26 - 27, 2005, Brussels, Belgium.
  An OpenBSD/OpenSSH booth was present, ran by the usual gang of suspects. Support for Wim Vandeputte 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, Alexander von Gernler, Uwe Stuehler, and Felix Kronlage from OpenDarwin.
  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 pf(4), of course).
  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.

• UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference, Feb 24 - 25, 2005, Birmingham, UK.
  Henning Brauer spoke on OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD and Signal Handlers.

• GUUG FFG 2005, Feb 22 - 25, 2005, Munich, Germany.
  Reyk Flöter talked about the latest wireless support in OpenBSD at the annual spring meeting of the German Unix User Group.

• Solutions Linux 2005, Feb 1 - 3, 2005, Paris, France.
  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.
  Marc Espie and Saad Kadhi gave a talk about the OpenBSD project with a special focus on the ports collection and Packet Filter. The slides (in French) are available.
  During the event, several demonstrations of Soekris machines running OpenBSD were given by Saad Kadhi and Wim.

2004

• 21C3 - Chaos Communication Congress, Dec 27 - 29, 2004, Berlin, Germany
  "The Usual Suspects" were there and ran the BSD corner, including Wim, Henning Brauer, Marc Balmer, Martin Reindl, Moritz Jodeit, Felix Kronlage, Uwe Stuehler, Konrad Foerstner, Bernd Ahlers, and Alexander von Gernler.
  Henning gave a talk about OpenBGPD and OpenNTPD (slides).
  The WiFi backbone ran on OpenBSD powered Soekris machines as access points, work done by Reyk Flöter, Tim Kornau and others. This installation was a very successful test of the new ath(4) driver.

• ICOS 2004, Dec 18 - 19, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan.
  Kevin Lo gave a presentation.

• SyScAN 2004, Dec 16 - 17, 2004, Singapore.
  Theo de Raadt presented his talk about Exploit Mitigation Techniques.

• SUR Group Meeting, December 2004, Dec 14, 2004, Paris, France.
  Saad Kadhi gave a talk about OpenBSD and security during the monthly meeting of the SUR Group (Sécurité Unix et Réseaux), a french user group focusing on security and Unix. The slides (in French) are available.

• OpenCon 2004, Dec 10 - 12, 2004, Venice, Italy.
  OpenBSD meeting in Northern Italy. Henning gave 3 talks in two days, on bgpd (slides), ntpd (slides) and signal handlers (slides). Wim ran a booth, and Marc Balmer was there as well.

• U of A Seminar, Nov 17 - 18, 2004, Edmonton Alberta.
  Theo de Raadt presented a talk at an open seminar at the University of Alberta, in Room B-02 of the Computing Sciences Center. 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 CIPS Security SIG luncheon.

• EuroBSD Con, Oct 29 - 31, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim. Henning gave a talk about bgpd, slides are available.

• Linux World Expo, Oct 26 - 28, 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim.

• Calgary Unix Users's Group, Oct 26, 2004, Calgary, Canada.
  Theo presented the talk that he has recently given in Australia and Malaysia to the "Home Crowd".

• Les Journées Du Logiciel Libre 2004, Oct 22 - 23, 2004, Lyon, France.
  

• Systems, Oct 18 - 22, 2004, Munich, Germany
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim.

• Linux Expo, Oct 6 - 7, 2004, London, UK.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim.

• Hack in the Box Security Conference 2004, Oct 4 - 7, 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  Theo de Raadt presented an updated version of his "Exploit Mitigation Techniques" talk.

• SANE 2004 , Sept 29, 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim.

• Linux Kongress 2004, Sept 7 - 10, 2004, Erlangen, Germany.
  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."
  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 Wim Vandeputte, Alexander von Gernler and other geeks from the Erlangen-Nuremberg area.
  There also was a BSD dinner at Friday evening.

• SUCON 2004, Sept 2 - 4, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth. Very nice conference. Henning's slides from his talks about bgpd and ntpd are available.

• AUUG 2004, Aug 29 - Sep 3, 2004, Melbourne, Australia.
  Theo de Raadt presented a half-day tutorial on privilege seperation and a newly extended version of the Exploit Mitigation Techniques talk.
  For more information, see this ComputerWorld article.

• Libre Software Meeting, July 6 - 10, 2004, Bordeaux, France.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim Vandeputte.

• LinuxTag 2004, June 23 - 26, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  There was an OpenBSD and OpenSSH booth, run by Wim Vandeputte.

• OpenBSD c2k4 "Hackathon", June 19 - 27, 2004, Calgary, Canada
  Over 45 developers congregated in Calgary for a 9 day long development session.

• Linuxwochen Vienna 2004, May 26 - 29, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
  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 CNGW gave a basic talk about pf.

• BSDCan 2004, May 13 - 16, 2004, Ottawa, Canada.
  BSDCan was held at the University of Ottawa. Ryan McBride gave a talk about newer features in pf, focusing on the redundancy provided by CARP and pfsync. Theo de Raadt presented a revised version of his talk on Exploit Mitigation Techniques.

• 3rd Linux and Open Source Festival, May 13 - 16, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.
  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.
  You can view the slides in PDF format the LaTeX source is also available (they are mirrored, as well).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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).

• 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.

• 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).

• Linuxday Luxembourg 2003, Nov 6 - 8, 2003, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  Booths were present, organized by Wim.

• 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.

• Les V^èmes 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.

• Linux Kongress Saarbrücken 2003, Oct 14 - 16, 2003, Saarbrücken, Germany.
  An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim again.

• Linux Expo London 2003, Oct 8 - 9, 2003, London, UK.
  An OpenBSD booth was present, starring Wim as usual.

• 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.

• SUCON '03, Sep 5, 2003. Zurich, Switzerland.
  Daniel Hartmeier talked about PF, and pictures are available.

• 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.

• 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.

• LinuxTag 2003, Jul 10 - 13, 2003, Karlsruhe Convention Center Germany
  Both OpenBSD and OpenSSH had booths in the main exhibit.

• 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.

• Linux User & Developer Expo 2003, Jun 24 - 26, 2003, at the NEC in Birmingham UK
  There was an OpenBSD booth with developers.

• 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.

• Webbit 2003, May 9 - 11, 2003, Padova, Italy
  Giacomo Cariello and Wim Vandeputte attended, and several OpenBSD related talks were given.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Australian Unix Users Group Winter Conference, Sep 1 - 6, 2002, Melbourne Australia
  Damien Miller presented a tutorial on the SSH protocol and OpenSSH tips and tricks.

• 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.

• Webb.it 02, Jul 5 - 7, 2002, Padova, Italy
  OpenBSD developers had a booth selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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

• 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.

• 52nd IETF, Dec 9 - 14, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
  Angelos, Itojun & Jakob were there.

• 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".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Jun 25 - 30, 2001, Boston, USA
  OpenBSD developers were there, selling CD's, T-shirts, etc.

• Information Security OlymFair, May 16 - 18, 2001, Seoul, Korea
  Dug Song gave a detailed introduction to OpenBSD to the Korean security community.

• 2001 Open Source and Free Software Developers' Meeting, Feb 3 - 4, 2001, Brussels, Belgium
  There was an OpenBSD booth with some loose talks made.

• 2001 Linux Expo, Feb 1 - 2, 2001, Paris, France
  There was an OpenBSD booth in the 'F' area.

2000

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
  • The IPsec Architecture in OpenBSD
    IPsec 2000 Global Summit by Niels Provos.
    slides.

• 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).

• BSD Con 2000, Oct 18 - 20, 2000, Monterey, CA, USA
  David Terrell ran an OpenBSD booth selling T-shirts and CDs and answering questions.

• 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.

• Usenix Security, Aug 14 - 17, 2000, Denver, Colorado, USA
  Some OpenBSD developers were there and one paper was presented:
  • Encrypting Virtual Memory
    Usenix Security 2000 by Niels Provos.
    paper and slides.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• IP-dagarna 1999, Oct 27 - 28, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
  Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 44th IETF meeting, Mar 15 - 19, 1999, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our IPSEC developers.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.