constant-time-analysis

constant-time-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from woohyun212/security-skill. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,817 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of cryptographic code for timing side channels, where attackers infer secret data by measuring how long operations take. It checks for secret-dependent branches, memory access, and unsafe comparisons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect AES, RSA, ECDSA, HMAC, password comparisons, custom cryptography, and compiler changes affecting constant-time code.
Why use it?
It helps find leaks that ordinary functional tests may miss in code handling keys, passwords, or other secrets.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/woohyun212/security-skill/constant-time-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add woohyun212/security-skill --skill constant-time-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/woohyun212/security-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,817 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.02817
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01409
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00563
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00282

Measured 6d ago against content hash 53ba2a261b81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

constant-time-analysis 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 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.

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.

constant-time-analysis/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this skill does

Inspects cryptographic source code for timing side-channel vulnerabilities — flaws that allow an attacker to infer secret values by measuring how long operations take. Targets secret-dependent control flow (branches, early returns), variable-time memory accesses (table lookups indexed by secret bytes), and missing or broken constant-time comparison primitives. Combines grep-based static analysis with optional dynamic instrumentation via ctgrind, timecop, or dudect, and maps confirmed findings to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

When to use

  • Auditing AES, RSA, ECDSA, HMAC, or password-comparison routines for timing leaks
  • Reviewing a custom crypto library or a vendor patch that touches sensitive comparison logic
  • Verifying that a memcmp replacement is truly constant-time before production use
  • Checking that compiler flags (-O2, LTO, PGO) have not optimized away carefully written constant-time code
  • Satisfying a security requirement that mandates constant-time operations for key material handling

Prerequisites

Tool Purpose Install
grep / ripgrep Static pattern search pre-installed / apt install ripgrep
objdump / gcc Disassembly, compilation apt install binutils gcc
valgrind + ctgrind Dynamic taint analysis apt install valgrind + build ctgrind from source
timecop Compile-time constant-time checker (C) https://github.com/agl/ctgrind (see also timecop)
dudect Statistical timing measurement https://github.com/oreparaz/dudect

Only grep/ripgrep and a compiler are required for the static analysis steps. Dynamic tools are optional but recommended for confirmation.

Inputs

Variable Description Example
TARGET_DIR Root directory of the crypto source to audit ./src/crypto
BINARY (optional) Compiled binary or object file for assembly inspection ./build/libcrypto.so
COMPILER_FLAGS Flags used to build the target -O2 -march=native

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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 · 233 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 53ba2a261b81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

constant-time-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository woohyun212/security-skill (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,817 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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