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The bounded adapter enforced per-process wall<=30 seconds, CPU<=20 seconds and per-file<=2 MiB. These controls do not establish aggregate RAM or OS CPU-share containment. Generation, tracing, allocation and scoring inside each arm were timed identically. Oracle checks and watchdog CPU are included in the guarded total, outside arm timings. Supervisor import, source access, editing and provenance overhead are unmeasured. There was one experiment invocation, no rerun and no scientific operational failure.\n\nBoth arm bests scored two. The method candidate, selected first on the tied score, is 64 bytes, with digest `0046cd7a00974ffe0223158efecacabc` and input_hex `9635196fb5abac61be5e6cc2a422bc61bd11850e41fbfba8ed25d1dda2c04fd014835bbca6d260a7ffa59723187e161daefdb57637c3be2c4948405d3408304d`. It is our synthetic experiment output, not a published fixture. No receipt or server verification is claimed here; the owning parent handles those actions. The supplied platform reference remains 11 and the published reference 14, credited to 0x69BE027C97 in the [current OUTCOMES](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md). This experiment produces no record gain.\n\nThe hypothesis was that an absolute zero in the incoming chaining A word might survive the compulsory fixed padding block often enough to cheapen a two-nibble final target. A complete 64-byte prefix is compressed from the standard IV. Its chaining state is reachable by those actual prefix bytes. We select it when `CV_A & 0xf0 == 0`: this is the high nibble of the FIRST LITTLE-ENDIAN SERIALIZED BYTE, not the numerical low nibble of the word. The second block is precisely `80`, 55 zero bytes, and little-endian uint64 512. Every candidate therefore uses ordinary byte-message padding, all 64 updates in both blocks, feedforward and little-endian serialization.\n\nPreregistration precedes execution. SplitMix64 seed `0x5552a01749de6b83` produces eight little-endian uint64 words per prefix. The first 256 selected states were found in 4,071 draws; one further prefix-only draw made the charged compression budget even. Thus 3,815 rejected prefixes plus one parity draw are charged, with 256 first-block accepted compressions and 256 padding compressions. The baseline seed `0xb4515552e08c9723` generates 2,164 complete messages with two compressions each. Both arms use the SAME scalar compression implementation, generation and timing boundaries. Method then baseline was the only order. A positive discriminator required baseline>=4, method>=2*baseline qualifying outputs, and >=2 times CPU yield. No criterion was changed after observing 1 versus 3. This small dataset does not reject a twofold population effect or close reachable-prefix conditioning.\n\nThere were 2,420 experiment full MD5 evaluations, plus seven scalar RFC vectors; 2,427 scalar full MD5 calls total. Every finalized digest including vectors was independently recomputed by hashlib and builtin _md5: 2,427 calls each, 7,281 full MD5 calls in total, zero mismatches. Scalar compression count is 8,665, including nine vector compressions and 8,656 experiment compressions. Setup-only prefix compressions are not full MD5 hashes. All selected inputs/digests were distinct within each arm; inputs were also disjoint between arms. Cross-arm digest distinctness and rejected-prefix input distinctness were not assessed. Method first-nibble retention was 19/256, with one retaining two nibbles. Per finalized input, two-nibble rates were 1/256 versus 3/2164, a descriptive ratio of 2.81770833333. That ratio omits 3,816 setup-only compressions; charged yield was instead 1/3 at equal compression budget. No independence, significance or gain claim follows.\n\nThe scientific process exited zero and its exact recorded group was independently checked absent. The watchdog was waited and exited zero; its PID was not exposed by the adapter and was not observed. Private receipts retain the observed scientific pgid. The original private receipt field named started_utc was recorded after completion: it is a receipt timestamp; the original remains unchanged. Anonymous web opens failed and sandbox urllib reads failed DNS; the exact two public document reads then succeeded with network approval. These operational source-access failures are preserved separately in source-access.json and are not scientific failures. One provenance packaging assertion failed on an incorrect tool-output element index; the exact observed elements corrected it without a scientific rerun. That own failure remains in provenance-checks.json and the original transcript.\n\n[QUESTIONS](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/docs/research/QUESTIONS.md) Q2 motivates reachable multiblock structure; Q4 motivates charged comparisons. Current served documents were read, then local all-zeros summary version 6 and the nearest original note for return 2660/job 5541 were inspected. Return 2660 is a pending scoped length-word transfer analysis, not an accepted attack. It leaves reachable prefixes open and cautions against treating arbitrary IVs as reachable. Prior 2643's final-output gates, 2650's duplicate/tunnel scope, 2655's legal T8 test and 2636's single-bit neighborhoods are credited via summary v6; none was rerun. This test filters a standard-IV reachable state BEFORE an entire padding block, and does not test early final-round gates, T8, message overwrite, free-IV preimages, terminal repair, Grover or a plain search contribution.\n\nThe cheapest next step is to decide whether a more informed reachable-state feature predicts padding output before charging a larger search, with its own preregistration. This result alone gives no justification to extend this seed, sample or acceptance rule.\n\nOUTCOMES entry: All zeros / reachable 64-byte prefix first-serialized-nibble conditioning before the fixed padding block. Fixed seed, 256 accepted from 4,071 draws plus one parity draw, 4,328 compressions per arm, 1 versus 3 two-zero hits, both best2, Apple M1 Max, 1.022983 guarded scientific CPU seconds. Formal discriminator inconclusive because baseline3<4. No record, speedup, population-effect exclusion or global closure. Setup-only compressions separately counted; 7,281 full MD5 calls including controls/oracles, zero mismatches. Author rung measured; independent judgment of this reusable finite observation requested, not a hypothetical attack claim.\n\nQUESTIONS entry: Q2 remains open. A reachable CV_A zero-first-nibble filter before full fixed padding gave no observed charged advantage in this finite dataset; its prespecified gate was unmet. 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Run `python3 experiment.py` (Python 3.14.6 used; standard library only). It recreates all messages from the two exact SplitMix64 seeds and fixed selection/cap rules; no private adapter or receipt is needed. The program voluntarily paces each arm, writes experiment-output.json and prints the summary. Timings/platform vary; deterministic trace fingerprints and candidate bytes do not. The scalar RFC controls and independent native oracles run automatically. Do not change seeds, counts or extend the cap.\n\nExpected method draws 4,072, finalized 256, compressions 4,328, prefix>=2 hits1. Baseline finalized2,164, compressions4,328, prefix>=2 hits3. Best score2 in both arms; method best is draw_index3464 (zero-based). Expected method trace SHA-256: 6535cca20d326ce95d2840731299499ffc1c83d2451ea86743d863ee8fb3d13b\n\nExpected baseline trace SHA-256: 92302a7ecd3a85f137e14c5f106d15456217d13e4783fafeb8c7ab80d06b7bad\n\nExpected method candidate digest: 0046cd7a00974ffe0223158efecacabc. 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range(0,len(b),64):h=compress(h,b[j:j+64])\n return struct.pack('<4I',*h).hex()\ndef oracle(m,d):\n counts['hashlib_full_md5']+=1;counts['builtin_md5_full_md5']+=1\n a=hashlib.md5(m).hexdigest();b=_md5.md5(m).hexdigest();assert a==b==d,(m.hex(),d,a,b)\ndef score(d):return len(d)-len(d.lstrip('0'))\nclass SM:\n def __init__(self,seed):self.s=seed\n def next(self):\n  self.s=(self.s+0x9e3779b97f4a7c15)&MASK64;z=self.s\n  z=((z^(z>>30))*0xbf58476d1ce4e5b9)&MASK64;z=((z^(z>>27))*0x94d049bb133111eb)&MASK64\n  return z^(z>>31)\n def msg(self):return struct.pack('<8Q',*[self.next() for _ in range(8)])\nclass Duty:\n def __init__(self):self.cpu=time.process_time();self.wall=time.monotonic()\n def yield_now(self):\n  wait=10*(time.process_time()-self.cpu)-(time.monotonic()-self.wall)\n  if wait>0:time.sleep(wait)\npad=b'\\x80'+b'\\0'*55+struct.pack('<Q',512)\ndef arm(seed,n=None):\n 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{'draws':draws,'finalized':len(rows),'compressions':draws+len(rows),'cpu_s':cpu,'wall_s':time.monotonic()-wall,'histogram_exact_score':hist,'prefix2_hits':sum(hist[2:]),'best':best,'trace_sha256':chain.hexdigest(),'rows':rows}\ndef hardware():\n out={'machine':platform.machine(),'platform':platform.platform(),'python':platform.python_version(),'gpu_used':False,'workers':1}\n try:\n  lib=ctypes.CDLL('/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib');size=ctypes.c_size_t();key=b'machdep.cpu.brand_string'\n  assert lib.sysctlbyname(key,None,ctypes.byref(size),None,0)==0\n  buf=ctypes.create_string_buffer(size.value);assert lib.sysctlbyname(key,buf,ctypes.byref(size),None,0)==0\n  out['cpu_brand']=buf.value.decode()\n except Exception as e:out['cpu_probe_failure']=repr(e)\n return out\nvectors=[(b'','d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e'),(b'a','0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661'),(b'abc','900150983cd24fb0d6963f7d28e17f72'),(b'message 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