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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:
LISA 1999,
by Bob Beck.
paper and
slides.
Håkan Olsson & Jakob Schlyter spoke at the DNSSEC session on the 27th.
Niklas Hallqvist spoke on the topic of how to use
IPsec for securing communications.
Theo de Raadt spoke at 10:00am on the 9th. Other OpenBSD
developers from the east coast attended as well.
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.
Theo de Raadt gave two talks on "quality of software" related issues
and participated on a panel about how open source projects are
coordinated.
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.
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.
At this conference, the OpenBSD team sold 100 or so 2.5 release CDROMs
and a TON of tshirts.
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:
Usenix 1999,
by Charles D. Cranor,
Theo de Raadt.
paper and
slides.
Usenix 1999,
by Niels Provos,
David Mazieres.
paper and
slides.
Usenix 1999,
by Theo de Raadt,
Niklas Hallqvist,
Artur Grabowski,
Angelos D. Keromytis,
Niels Provos.
paper and
slides.
Usenix 1999,
by Todd C. Miller,
Theo de Raadt.
paper and
slides.
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.
Some OpenBSD team members were at this conference, in particular our
IPSEC developers.
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
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.
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.
Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing, sponsored by
CORE SDI S.A., an Argentinian
security auditing company who strongly believes in the future
of OpenBSD. (Slides are available).
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.
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.
Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric
Raymond and others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Niels held a
talk
about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as
possible solution.
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.
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.
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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