ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Friday, April 29th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, October 12th at 6:30PM CDT via Zoom.

Featuring: The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD

A whimsical guide to using one of the *BSDs as a desktop OS for multisource historical research and writing (with a focus on FreeBSD)

Biography:

Corey Stephan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he studies ancient, medieval, and Byzantine Christianity. He is also a lifelong computer geek.

Please email rsvp at chibug.org or the mailing list to get the meeting details.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings.

Featuring: HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union

Over the last few years, since the last State of the Hardened Union, HardenedBSD has made strides in several areas. We’re now focused as a hardened human rights-focused operating system. This presentation will dive into recent developments of the OS itself along with our focus on human rights. We’ll highlight some unique areas where HardenedBSD is being used in production.

Biography:

Shawn Webb is a senior security engineer and lead technical architect for BlackhawkNest, Inc. He is also the cofounder of HardenedBSD and its lead security engineer. He was introduced into the security industry as a teenager, falling in love with both offensive and defensive security. Shawn has written tools like libhijack, which aims to make runtime process infection dead simple on FreeBSD. Now he works primarily on the defensive end, implementing exploit mitigations and security hardening technologies in HardenedBSD.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, August 10th at 6:30PM CDT via Zoom.

Featuring: Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks

Operating systems continue to be susceptible to Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks by malicious I/O devices. While the Input/Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) provides ways to protect the host’s physical memory from potential tampering, IOMMUs often are not used correctly, or not even used at all due to performance penalties. This talk gives an overview of the troubles and presents a possible design alternative.

Biography:

Patrick Wildt works for genua, a company that builds OpenBSD based firewalls and VPN gateways. He has been an OpenBSD developer since 2012, where he takes care of the ARM subtree, writes device drivers to support new hardware, and occasionally updates the compiler infrastructure.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, May 11th at 6:30PM CDT via Zoom.

Featuring OpenIKED: On The Road Again

iked(8) is a free, permissively licensed Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2)implementation, developed as part of the OpenBSD project. It is intended to be a lean, secure and interoperable daemon that allows for easy setup and management of IPsec VPNs.

Biography:

Tobias Heider is an OpenBSD developer working for genua GmbH in Munich, a company building OpenBSD based firewalls and VPN gateways. Since 2019, he has been working mainly on the OpenIKED daemon, the OpenBSD kernel IPsec stack, and the crypto framework.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom.

Featuring a talk about WireGuard on OpenBSD

with usage scenairos and example configurations

Abstract:

WireGuard® is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many different circumstances. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it is now cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android) and widely deployable. It is currently under heavy development, but already it might be regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, March 9th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom.

Featuring Dr. Paul Vixie AMA.

“Ask me anything, but especially about Cron, Bind, Libresolv, Internet governance, and Distributed System Security”.

Biography:

Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. He was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and DNSSEC. Dr. Vixie is a prolific author of open-source Internet software including BIND, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). He earned his Ph.D. from Keio University.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 at 6pm on jitsi.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 from 6pm to 9pm at a different location than usual: the Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the Oak Park Library’s main branch:

834 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60301

Parking is available in their underground parking garage and the first two hours are free. The library is only about 0.2 miles from the Oak Park Green Line CTA stop.

Pizza will be delivered at around 6:30pm. Other food and drink are allowed if you want to bring them, but no alcohol is allowed.

A TV hookup is available for presentations or demos, and Wi-Fi is available throughout the library.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting one week later than usual on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list.

February’s meeting will be on Tuesday, February 26th from 6:00pm to 8:30pm at the Small Meeting Room on the second floor of the Oak Park Library main branch:

834 Lake St. Oak Park, IL 60301

Parking is available in their underground parking garage and the first two hours are free.

Pizza will be delivered at around 6:30pm. Other food and drink are allowed, but no alcohol.

This will be an installfest so bring any machines and laptops you want and we’ll help each other with installation and configuration.

A projector available (presumably VGA or HDMI) if anyone wants to demo anything.

There is WiFi available and a WiFi-ethernet bridge and a few cables will be brought for those bringing equipment needing ethernet.

If you plan on attending, please send a message to our mailing list.

ChiBUG will be meeting today on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting this month on Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

Please note that we will be meeting on Tuesdays going forward instead of Wednesdays.

If you plan on attending or have to cancel, please post to the mailing list so we can get an accurate head count.

ChiBUG’s October meeting for tomorrow, October 10th has been canceled due to low expected turnout.

A future meeting will be scheduled on our mailing list.

ChiBUG will be meeting next month on Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting this month on Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

After a brief holiday hiatus, ChiBUG will be meeting again this month on Wednesday, March 14th, 2018 at 6pm at our usual place: Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

A last minute update, but December’s meeting has been canceled due to low expected turnout.

This month ChiBUG will be meeting on the second Wednesday of the month at its usual place and time - 6pm at Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, September 6th, 2017 at 6pm at Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting today, Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 at 6pm at Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count. If you change your mind or are running late, please email the mailing list so we can organize accordingly.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 at Giordano’s in the loop for Pizza and Beer at 6PM.

223 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60606

If you are running late and still plan on attending, please email the mailing list so we can get a large enough table.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017 at Giordano’s in Oak Park again for Pizza and Beer at 6PM.

If you are running late and still plan on attending, please email the mailing list so we can get a large enough table.

1115 W. Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302

ChiBUG will be meeting on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 at Giordano’s at 1115 W. Chicago Ave. in Oak Park, which is walking distance from the Harlem Green Line stop in Oak Park.

We’ll be meeting at 6pm, but will be there for at least a couple hours.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 at Giordano’s at 223 West Jackson in Chicago. We’ll have someone there by 6pm to reserve a table, but latecomers are welcome.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count.

ChiBUG will be meeting on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 at Giordano’s at 223 West Jackson in Chicago. We’ll have someone there by 6pm to reserve a table, but latecomers are welcome.

If you plan on attending, please post to the mailing list so we can get an estimated head count.

Due to the possibility of the Cubs playing on Wednesday night, we have rescheduled November’s meeting for next week, on Wednesday, November 9th.

November’s ChiBUG meeting will be of the more social type with no talks scheduled. We will be meeting at 6pm on Wednesday, November 9th at Monk’s Pub at 205 W Lake St in Chicago.

If you can’t find the ChiBUG table, just email jcs when you arrive.

Slides from October’s meeting are available:

• PF Queuing for OpenBSD 5.5 and Newer by Jim Hoffman

Reminder that our next meeting is on Wednesday, October 5th from 6pm to 8pm. Our first talk will be from Jim about PF queuing. If anyone else wants to give a talk, please contact jcs.

Our meeting will again be at the Telnyx office in River North at 311 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60654.

When you arrive, walk straight ahead and take the elevator to the 5th floor and enter the office on the left. E-mail Rob if you have trouble getting up to the space upon arrival.

We will be holding our first formal meeting at Telnyx at 311 W. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60654 on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 starting at 6:00pm. We expect to be having presentations and talks until 8:00pm and possibly retiring to a nearby pub/restaurant afterwards.

If you plan on attending and/or would like to give a presentation, please subscribe and post to our mailing list for futher details.

A few people will be meeting at Monk’s Pub at 205 West Lake Street in Chicago on Wednesday, August 17th, 2016 starting at 5:30pm (though you can come and go at any time). Feel free to stop by and say hi.

We are still working on securing a formal meeting place where we can give talks and things.