Conferences and other Events.

Future events:

• IPsec/VPN Interoperability tests & seminar December 14, 1998. Stockholm, Sweden. (in swedish)
  OpenBSD will be represented as one of about a dozen IPsec implementations who are going to be tested for interoperability.

• NordU99 -- The first EurOpen/USENIX Conference. February 9-12, 1999. Stockholm, Sweden.
  OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.

• Usenix Annual Technical Conference. June 6-11, 1999. Monterey, California, USA.
  OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference. A couple of OpenBSD developers are presenting papers in the Freenix track.

• Usenix Security. August 23-26, 1999. Washington, DC, USA.
  OpenBSD team members will surely be at this conference.

Past events:

• Usenix Annual Technical Conference. January 6-10, 1997. Anaheim, California, USA.
  

• Defcon V. July 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...

• HOPE. August 1997. New York, New York, USA.
  The terminal room consisted primarily of Decstation running OpenBSD 2.1.

• HIP. August 1997. Almere, Netherlands
  Niels held a talk about the problems of unencrypted TCP/IP connections, offering IPSEC as possible solution.

• Usenix Security. January 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. The terminal room PC's ran OpenBSD 2.2.

• Usenix Annual Technical Conference. June 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 PC's ran OpenBSD 2.3. We sold many CDROMs. The first style of OpenBSD t-shirt also sold quite well.

• BlackHat Sessions. July 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.

• Defcon VI. July 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 CDROMs were sold (we ran out again). The primates at monkey.org brought the second style of OpenBSD t-shirt to the conference and sold almost 200 of them. The proceeds from the sales were donated to the OpenBSD project.

• OSDD. August 21, 1998. San Jose, California, USA.
  O'Reilly and Associates Open Source Developer Days. 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.

• Reflections/Projections 1998 October 2-4, 1998. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
  Theo de Raadt spoke in a panel about Open/Free software with Eric Raymond and others.

• NCEE '98. October 9,10 1998. Auburn, Maine, USA.
  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.

• IP-dagarna, October 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. Isakmpd will be shipped with OpenBSD after 2.4 is released.

• DISC - Seguridad en C'omputo 98: November 2-7, 1998. Mexico City.
  Theo de Raadt gave a talk about security auditing.

• LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration Conference December 6-11, 1998. Boston, Massachusetts.
  About 15 OpenBSD team members showed up, I would say that by far we were the largest representative group from free software.
  
  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.
  An OpenBSD BOF was held, led by Theo de Raadt.
  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.
  A PalmPilot schedule loader was at the membership booth, powered by OpenBSD.