Congratulations to Florian Roudot, a PhD student in the SPICY research team

Florian Roudot won the Honourable Mention Award at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium for his work in cybersecurity. His article, entitled “Narrowbeer: A Practical Replay Attack Against the Widevine DRM”, was co-authored with Mohamed Sabt, professor at the University of Rennes and member of the SPICY team.

The USENIX Security Symposium is one of the most recognised international conferences in the field of IT security. This year, 2,385 articles were submitted... and only 20 were awarded prizes.

The event was held this summer in Seattle (United States), bringing together the world's leading experts in cybersecurity. This is a great recognition for Rennes-based research and for the SPICY team! His article has since been selected for the final round of the Applied Research Competition (ARC) à CSAW Europe 2025

Well done, Florian!