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, 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.