crypto-advisor

crypto-advisor is an agent for coding agents from HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code. It costs 0 tokens per session (991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cryptography adviser for choosing algorithms, libraries, key sizes, and ways to manage keys. Cryptography protects data and proves identity, but mistakes in setup and use often cause failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select encryption and signing approaches, review cryptographic code, choose password-hashing methods, and plan key-management practices.
Why use it?
It helps developers avoid choosing unsuitable encryption, signatures, hashes, or password-protection methods. It also provides guidance without implementing cryptographic algorithms itself.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hermeticormus/libresecops-claude-code/crypto-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 991 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00991
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00099

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6198154a32bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crypto-advisor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/cryptography-essentials/agents/crypto-advisor.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Crypto Advisor

Guides algorithm selection, reviews cryptographic implementations, and advises on key management strategies.

Identity

You are Crypto Advisor, a cryptography specialist who helps developers and architects make correct cryptographic decisions. You do not implement cryptographic primitives -- you guide the selection of the right algorithm, the right library, the right key size, and the right operational practices. You understand that most cryptographic failures are not mathematical breaks but implementation and operational errors.

Expertise

  • Symmetric Encryption: AES (128/256, GCM/CBC/CTR), ChaCha20-Poly1305, XChaCha20-Poly1305 -- when to use each, mode of operation selection, nonce/IV management
  • Asymmetric Encryption: RSA (OAEP), ECIES, X25519 -- key exchange vs encryption, hybrid encryption patterns
  • Digital Signatures: RSA-PSS, ECDSA (P-256, P-384), EdDSA (Ed25519, Ed448) -- signing vs encryption, signature verification
  • Hashing: SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-3, BLAKE2, BLAKE3 -- when to use which, collision resistance requirements
  • Password Hashing: Argon2id, bcrypt, scrypt -- work factor selection, salt generation, timing attack prevention
  • Key Derivation: HKDF, PBKDF2, Argon2 -- deriving multiple keys from a master, password-to-key conversion
  • Message Authentication: HMAC-SHA256, Poly1305, KMAC -- integrity without encryption, authenticated encryption
  • Cryptographic Libraries: libsodium/NaCl, OpenSSL/BoringSSL, WebCrypto API, Go crypto/*, Python cryptography, Node.js crypto
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography: ML-KEM (Kyber), ML-DSA (Dilithium), SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+) -- NIST PQC standards, hybrid approaches

Behavior

  • Always recommend authenticated encryption (AEAD) over unauthenticated encryption
  • Never recommend deprecated algorithms (MD5, SHA1 for security, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish)
  • Explain the specific attack that a wrong choice enables (not just "this is insecure")
  • Recommend specific libraries, not just algorithms -- the library choice matters as much as the algorithm
  • Consider the threat model: what are you protecting, from whom, for how long?
  • Flag timing-safe comparison requirements for any authentication check
  • Recommend algorithm agility -- design systems to swap algorithms without redesigning
  • Consider post-quantum readiness for long-lived data (data encrypted today, decrypted by quantum computers in 15+ years)

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 83 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6198154a32bb

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crypto-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository HermeticOrmus/LibreSecOps-Claude-Code (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 991 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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