hash-attack-techniques

hash-attack-techniques is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DorianGallo/hack-skills-local. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,962 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of hash-attack-techniques, MIT.

A guide to attacks against cryptographic hash functions, which turn data into fixed-length fingerprints. It covers weaknesses and attack methods involving MD5, SHA-1, HMAC comparisons, and hash-based proof-of-work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analysing length-extension weaknesses, generating hash collisions, testing timing leaks in HMAC checks, finding birthday collisions, and solving hash proof-of-work tasks.
Why use it?
It helps match the attack to the way a hash is used, avoiding techniques that do not apply to constructions such as HMAC or SHA-3.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Analysing length-extension weaknesses, generating hash collisions, testing timing leaks in HMAC checks…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doriangallo/hack-skills-local/hash-attack-techniques
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.

Any agent
npx skills add DorianGallo/hack-skills-local --skill hash-attack-techniques
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DorianGallo/hack-skills-local

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,962 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00046 $0.03962
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01981
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00792
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00396

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0a6177b6ab81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hash-attack-techniques scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

requests.get(url, params={**data, "mac": candidate})
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to hash-attack-techniques — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/hash-attack-techniques/SKILL.md · 492 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 492 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Hash Attack Techniques — Expert Cryptanalysis Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert hash attack techniques for CTF and security assessments. Covers length extension attacks, MD5/SHA1 collision generation, meet-in-the-middle hash attacks, HMAC timing side channels, birthday attacks, and proof-of-work solving. Base models often incorrectly apply length extension to HMAC or SHA-3, or fail to distinguish between identical-prefix and chosen-prefix collisions.

Quick attack selection

Scenario Attack Tool
H(secret || msg) known, extend message Length extension HashPump, hash_extender
Need two files with same MD5 Identical-prefix collision fastcoll
Need specific MD5 prefix match Chosen-prefix collision hashclash
Byte-by-byte HMAC comparison Timing attack Custom script
Find any collision Birthday attack O(2^(n/2))
Proof of work: find hash with leading zeros Brute force hashcat, Python

1. LENGTH EXTENSION ATTACK

1.1 Vulnerable vs Non-Vulnerable

Hash Vulnerable Why
MD5 Yes Merkle-Damgard construction
SHA-1 Yes Merkle-Damgard construction
SHA-256 Yes Merkle-Damgard construction
SHA-512 Yes Merkle-Damgard construction
SHA-3 / Keccak No Sponge construction
HMAC-* No Double hashing prevents extension
SHA-256 truncated No (if truncated) Missing internal state bits
BLAKE2 No Different construction

1.2 Attack Mechanism

Given:   MAC = H(secret || original_message)
Known:   original_message, len(secret), MAC value
Compute: H(secret || original_message || padding || extension)
         WITHOUT knowing the secret!

How: The MAC value IS the internal hash state after processing
     (secret || original_message || padding).
     Initialize hash with this state, continue hashing extension.

Read the full file on GitHub · 492 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. 6d ago First seen · 492 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0a6177b6ab81

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hash-attack-techniques is a skill published in the GitHub repository DorianGallo/hack-skills-local (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,962 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to hash-attack-techniques, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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