Cryptographic Analysis

When to Activate

• Auditing TLS/SSL/SSH configurations and X.509 PKI (cipher suites, downgrade, protocol flaws)
• Reviewing crypto implementations in source code or captured traffic
• Attacking weak RSA/ECC keys (CTF and real-world weak-key hygiene)
• Recovering ECDSA/DSA private keys from reused or biased nonces (lattice/HNP)
• Exploiting symmetric/AEAD misuse: padding oracles, GCM nonce reuse, key-commitment
• Forging JWT/JOSE tokens (algorithm confusion, none, jwk/jku/kid injection)
• Cracking password hashes and grading KDF strength
• Assessing post-quantum readiness ("harvest now, decrypt later" exposure)

Technique Map

Quick Start

# 0. TLS/PKI posture in one shot (downgrade, ROBOT, SWEET32, Terrapin, cert/CT)
python3 scripts/tls_audit.py target.com:443 --ssh target.com:22 --ct --json out.json
testssl.sh --full --robot --sweet32 https://target.com   # cross-check with the canonical tool

# 1. RSA weak-key triage on a captured public key
python3 scripts/rsa_attack.py --pubkey server.pem --ct ciphertext.b64 --auto
#   tries Fermat (p~=q), Wiener (small d), batch-GCD/common-modulus, ROCA fingerprint

# 2. ECDSA key recovery from a signature corpus (reuse or bias)
python3 scripts/ecdsa_lattice.py recover sigs.json --curve secp256r1 --known-msb 4
#   reuse: needs 2 sigs w/ same r; bias: ~256-1200 sigs depending on leak

# 3. Symmetric/AEAD misuse
python3 scripts/padding_oracle.py --url https://t/dec --ct $CT --block 16   # CBC oracle
python3 scripts/gcm_nonce_reuse.py forbidden ct1.bin ct2.bin --nonce $N     # recover H + forge

# 4. JWT forgery chain
python3 scripts/jwt_forge.py confusion --pubkey jwt_pub.pem --claims '{"role":"admin"}'
python3 scripts/jwt_forge.py none      --claims '{"sub":"admin"}'

# 5. Hash triage + crack plan
python3 scripts/hash_triage.py hashes.txt            # identify + emit hashcat -m / john format
hashcat -m 22000 capture.hc22000 wl.txt -r rules/best64.rule

OPSEC & Detection (summary)

Deep Dives

• references/tls-pki-audit.md — TLS/SSL/SSH posture: cipher/protocol downgrade, Terrapin (CVE-2023-48795), Marvin/Bleichenbacher (CVE-2022-4304, CVE-2024-2236), SWEET32/DROWN/Logjam/POODLE, X.509 and Certificate-Transparency analysis.
• references/rsa-attacks.md — Weak-key factoring: Fermat, Wiener, common modulus, Hastad broadcast, Coppersmith partial-key, batch-GCD, ROCA (CVE-2017-15361); RsaCtfTool / cado-nfs / SageMath workflow.
• references/ecc-nonce-attacks.md — ECDSA/DSA nonce reuse, biased-nonce lattice/HNP recovery (Minerva, PuTTY CVE-2024-31497), invalid-curve attacks, psychic signatures (CVE-2022-21449).
• references/symmetric-aead.md — Block-cipher mode misuse: ECB detection, CBC padding oracle, CTR/GCM nonce reuse (forbidden attack), AEAD key-commitment / invisible salamanders / partitioning oracles.
• references/jwt-jose.md — JWT/JOSE token forgery: algorithm confusion (CVE-2024-54150), alg=none, jwk/jku/x5u/kid injection, weak-secret cracking, library-level CVE landscape.
• references/hash-pq.md — Hash identification, modern GPU cracking economics (RTX 40/50-series), KDF strength grading, and post-quantum migration / "harvest now, decrypt later" assessment (ML-KEM/ML-DSA, hybrid TLS, crypto-agility).