OpenBSD OpenCON 2005 presentations

Posted by Jonathan

The slides for the OpenBSD presentations at OpenCON 2005 are now available. Peter Valchev posted the links on misc@openbsd.org.

Peter also described the Venice v2k5 ports hackathon that was held right before the conference. See his post for details or his presentation slides about the hackathron.

The other presentations are:

OpenBSD Ports and Packages by Marc Espie

An overview of the current state and some of the new features like FETCH_PACKAGES and FORCE_UPDATE.

OpenBSD Networking Update by Henning Brauer

Interesting information about PF, OpenBGBD, OpenOSPFD, DoS migration, and crazy ideas for the future like a fast path through the network stack for forwarded connections with an already set up state.

Porting OpenBSD by Niall O’Higgins and Uwe Stühler

How to port OpenBSD to another architecture and a status update on the Zaurus port.

Exploit Mitigation Techniques by Theo de Raadt

Theo’s famous presentation on the exploit migration techniques used in OpenBSD with some updates on the new random malloc and mmap stuff.

UPDATE:
Undeadly.org has a write-up on the ports hackathon here.