discover-cryptography

An automatic finder for guidance about cryptography, the methods used to protect data and communications. It covers topics such as encryption, TLS, certificates, and key management.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working with encryption, hashing, digital signatures, TLS, certificate authorities, public-key infrastructure, or certificate lifecycle management.
Why use it?
It helps locate the relevant security guidance when a task involves protecting data, configuring HTTPS, or managing certificates. This reduces the need to search through separate cryptography topics manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/rand/cc-polymath/discover-cryptography
Any agent
npx skills add rand/cc-polymath --skill discover-cryptography
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rand/cc-polymath

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 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 $0.00024 $0.00744
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9bd0221a0add, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover-cryptography 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 2d 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.

skills/discover-cryptography/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cryptography Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive cryptography and security skills.

When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:

  • TLS, SSL, mTLS
  • Certificates and PKI
  • Encryption and decryption
  • Hashing and signing
  • Key management
  • HTTPS configuration
  • Certificate authorities
  • Cryptographic algorithms
  • Security best practices

Available Skills

Quick Reference

The Cryptography category contains 7 skills:

  1. pki-fundamentals - PKI, certificate authorities, X.509, trust chains
  2. tls-configuration - TLS 1.2/1.3 setup, cipher suites, server config
  3. ssl-legacy - SSL 2.0/3.0, TLS 1.0/1.1, deprecation, migration
  4. sni-routing - Server Name Indication, multi-domain TLS hosting
  5. certificate-management - Certificate lifecycle, Let's Encrypt, automation
  6. cryptography-basics - Symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing, signing
  7. crypto-best-practices - Security patterns, common mistakes, anti-patterns

Load Full Category Details

For complete descriptions and workflows:

Read ../cryptography/INDEX.md

This loads the full Cryptography category index with:

  • Detailed skill descriptions
  • Usage triggers for each skill
  • Common workflow combinations
  • Cross-references to related skills

Load Specific Skills

Load individual skills as needed:

Read ../cryptography/pki-fundamentals.md Read ../cryptography/tls-configuration.md Read ../cryptography/certificate-management.md Read ../cryptography/cryptography-basics.md

Common Workflows

Setting Up HTTPS

PKI basics → TLS config → Certificate management

Read ../cryptography/pki-fundamentals.md Read ../cryptography/tls-configuration.md Read ../cryptography/certificate-management.md

Understanding Encryption

Basics → Best practices → Specific implementation

Read ../cryptography/cryptography-basics.md Read ../cryptography/crypto-best-practices.md Read ../cryptography/tls-configuration.md

Certificate Troubleshooting

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 2d ago First seen · 110 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 9bd0221a0add

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover-cryptography is a skill published in the GitHub repository rand/cc-polymath (136 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 744 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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