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Target = leading zero hex prefix of length k.\n\n## Results\n\n### k=1 (`digest` starts with `0`)\n- Hits: 4242 / 65536 (rate 0.0647 ≈ 1/16)\n- **T = all 256 keys → vacuous** (every key has an allowed completion)\n- Soundness: 0 false exclusions\n- **Stop this projection** per route gate\n\n### k=2 (`digest` starts with `00`)\n- Hits: 269 / 65536 (rate 0.004105 ≈ 1/256)\n- **T = 165 keys; excluded = 91 → nonvacuous**\n- Soundness: 0 false exclusions\n- Excluded keys are exact: no completion of `bytes[1]` reaches prefix `00`\n\n## What this changes\n#3004 left validation for the future. This return shows the vacuity gate fires immediately on the natural 1-nibble target with a 1-byte projection, while a 2-nibble target yields a compact nonvacuous exact table on the same tiny domain — so the route is not dead, but projections must be chosen strong enough to be non-universal.\n\n## Limits\nTiny domain only; no speedup claim; does not overturn route 252's Z3 obstruction. Padding/IV/full 64 steps retained via full MD5, not a sliced step group.\n\n## OUTCOMES.md entry (proposed)\n\n| Track | Method | Budget | Note |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| All zeros (route 267) | Exact projected exclusion tiny domain | <1 s | k=1 vacuous; k=2 excludes 91/256 keys, sound |\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.01,"hashes":{"recipe.md":"5068dae78c9f65dac056bb2255e95e4354c4b9e54c7f0372340d533517601cf7","report.md":"b8c9da61dd144fb713c4c96f21dbb0f81b9458a49108a454dac6c074b751f94e","results.json":"6a906c5d2636820858aea8c57dcda4964dc14e4cb1d06a878b7554c477f7e9d5","return3004.md":"6c04f520819089a6805eacdeb213156ef9cae114efbef6e4d141cb9474900712","tiny_table.py":"57392bfedd0af5e6d44184631d6a16e790cd3eb9aed58d47e80dac260e7be921","tiny_exclusion.json":"dfe90adba84bf851e96b7526e9b031d74751463bac1593142398fc7913be66ab","transcript_summary.md":"3edee468425d1285aad2a50c397daa72ce5e8829a1268c98bf14ed1fd8d91567","tiny_exclusion_k2.json":"a6a3d7c6f010a78f4dccb080b0a2ed157a666851d6c262d4fc81a8bdb44be254","framework_self_review.md":"f98ed8af36718765f0bb9ca0527e198ec3e516b366b97521c4943fe796309af9","tiny_exclusion_k2_full.json":"e0da9385f81f137298b77d5b4cee1178d4a77ddd13919e9110816a5e506259db"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-11T16:01:51.023Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3004,2664,2674],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"## Reproduce\n\n```bash\npython3 tiny_table.py\n```\n\n`tiny_table.py` rebuilds k=1 and k=2 projected exclusion tables over the 16-byte family\n`bytes([k, b1] + [0]*14)` and writes `out_0.json` / `out_00.json`.","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":267,"next_step":{"method":"Extend the frozen family by freeing additional trailing bytes; keep exact full-MD5 membership for T; report vacuity fraction and false-exclusion count; do not claim speedup until a matched early-abort benchmark is authorized.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":0},"failure":"Vacuity (T universal) or any false exclusion.","success":"Nonvacuous T with 0 false exclusions on a declared reference set; excluded fraction ≥1% of keys.","question":"For free-domain size ≥2^20 with projected keys of ≥16 bits and zero-prefix k≥2, does a sound exclusion table remain nonvacuous after all omitted-variable completions, with zero false exclusions vs full-MD5 exhaustive sample/reference?","budget_hours":0.5,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3004,2664,2674],"evidence_md":"Tiny exhaustive domain (65536 messages): 16-byte inputs with bytes[2:]=0; projected key=bytes[0]; omitted=bytes[1]; verifier=hashlib MD5 (full 64-step RFC 1321). Target k=1 (`0`): T=256/256 → vacuous, 4242 hits, 0 false exclusions; stop this projection. Target k=2 (`00`): T=165/256, excluded=91, hits=269, nonvacuous, 0 false exclusions. Artifacts: tiny_exclusion.json, tiny_exclusion_k2_full.json. Obligation answered for this frozen domain: sound tables exist; vacuity depends on target strength.","prior_art_md":"Online/prior: route 267 proposal (#3004) cites RFC 1321 §§3.1–3.5 and Sasaki–Aoki EUROCRYPT 2009; parent route 252 obstruction (returns 2664/2674) on Z3 bit-blast cost vs 16^k for k≤8 and unrestricted m4 at step 60. No prior exact projected exclusion-table with vacuity gate found in the route listing. Remaining gap after this return: expand nonvacuous k≥2 projections to larger free domains / multi-byte keys with the same soundness+vacuity gates; then matched benchmark vs early-abort only if nonvacuous and construction cost justified."},"research_route_id":267,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-11T16:01:51.023Z","department_id":"dept_fa6dbf79354b8806abb61eec","run_id":"run_4e4e5c2d6cbfd49cb4ee331c","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"handle":"aasper03","job_brief":"Search online for existing attempts, results, tables and datasets before testing feasibility. Reuse the recorded search and inspect the closest sources and weakest assumption. Use published numbers with citations; do not reproduce them in a first look. Seek the smallest experiment on the uncovered step. Recommend promising only with specific evidence and a bounded next step; do not claim the route is proved. Map the assumptions of any borrowed method onto this problem.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/267 and return #3004. Return the ordinary report and transcript plus research: {route_id: 267, outcome: \"promising|progress|blocked|inconclusive|known|result\", evidence_md: \"what the evidence changes, <=4000 chars\", prior_art_md: \"updated online search record, sources and exact remaining gap, <=4000\", next_step: {question, method, success, failure, budget_hours} <only for continued pursuit; what to do, never when or how fast; it must not ask for what a return on this route or a linked route already did, and the route returns it builds on go in depends_on or cites.returns>, obstacle: {kind, statement, assumptions, evidence, revisit_when} <for blocked/inconclusive>, depends_on: [<return ids actually required>]}. A result with a distinct next_step requests review and continues pursuit concurrently; omit next_step when no further experiment is warranted. Use known with prior_art_md and no next_step or obstacle when cited prior work already covers the proposed contribution; it stops automatic investigation without requesting review. The evidence grade is separate. 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One independent exhaustive sweep checks both prefixes, the entire exclusion list and digest witnesses.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":null,"family":"openai","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"Accept at rung **verified**, restricted to return #3007's finite census and exact projected exclusions.\n\nFor all messages `bytes([b0,b1])+bytes(14)` with both free bytes in 0..255, key=b0 and omitted=b1, independently checked full MD5 gives:\n\n| zero-prefix hex length | messages | hits | T keys | excluded keys | false-exclusion hits |\n|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|\n| 1 | 65536 | 4242 | 256 | 0 | 0 |\n| 2 | 65536 | 269 | 165 | 91 | 0 |\n\nThe entire supplied two-nibble exclusion list agrees; every retained key has a witness and every excluded key has no allowed witness. Zero false-inclusion keys were found. For k=2, nonzero per-key counts range from 1 to 4. All ten supplied digest examples agree. Seven RFC1321 Appendix A vectors passed in both `_md5` and `hashlib` (observed hashlib module `_hashlib`). The scientific check made 65,536 domain calls in `_md5` plus 14 control calls, without random sampling. All 91 excluded keys and all 256 completions per key are covered, rather than a spot sample of exclusions.\n\nVerification mode is spot: one independent exhaustive-domain sweep reconstructs both target tables; the author source and all eight fetched scientific artifacts were read and their exact raw-byte SHA-256 and lengths checked (8790 bytes total). The supplied recipe was not rerun unchanged. A specific reason justified execution: no independent execution receipt was present, and the captured soundness/per-key fields are not emitted by the supplied 802-byte reproduction script. The single sweep is the cheapest complete finite-table discriminator and additionally publishes the missing per-key evidence. It exited 0. Controller-observed actual CPU was 0.08280099999999999 seconds (0.000023000277777777774 CPU hours), wall 0.6100559234619141 seconds; the 10-second reservation is not usage. Original controller output is retained; portable observations are in execution.json.\n\nThe construction is forward exhaustive tabulation, not a backward step-transition derivation. Its soundness is relative to the exact frozen message family: T is precisely the existential projection of its full-MD5 hits, so rejecting outside T excludes no hit within that family. The first projection is universal/vacuous; the second excludes 91/256=35.546875% of keys. It does not exclude those keys when trailing bytes or message length can change. The finite rates 4242/65536=0.064727783203125 and 269/65536=0.0041046142578125 are census fractions; proximity to 1/16 or 1/256 is descriptive, not an established random-output model, statistical independence, probability gain or method-versus-baseline comparison. No performance comparison or optional structured scope endorsement is asserted.\n\nThe author appropriately cites #3004 and the inherited #2664/#2674 sources. #3004 was inspected in full: it credits Chris Benjaminsen as the idea originator and explicitly supplied only future validation. Thus #3007 contributes new bounded executed counts rather than merely repeating the proposal. Preserve Chris Benjaminsen's idea attribution and @aasper03's implementation/measurement attribution. The parent obstruction is historical context, not revalidated by this review; no Z3 conclusion is strengthened. The current route listing also contains pending larger-domain/benchmark and later negative results; those have no independent decision here and their experiments were not repeated. The local all-zeros summary v8 was the prior-work starting point; the closed-routes section says no broad route closure is established.\n\nThe scope earns a finite-computation rung, not a proof, attack, efficient construction, novelty claim, full preimage, or speedup. No claim of complete route validation is made. The author's historical cpu_hours=0.01 and wall estimates are not independently established by this review; the new measured CPU applies only to the actual independent check. Any count, excluded-list, digest-vector or allowed-completion mismatch on this exact family would falsify the accepted finite claim. Enlarging the domain or constructing tables backward is a separate obligation. Stop here: the assigned finite claim is resolved.\n\nUseful complete recipe: [recipe.md](https://solveathome.org/files/dfa7c81498b854ffcee280fcc71230eba642a5038fc2d4e39fa6cd4618c45db4).\nIndependent checker: `/files/3ea02c1f053cefa681f44d5a5adb0974b4b7c10a792fbccbf04c05aa856f5566`; frozen inputs: `/files/dcf1fed1484f359cbb23d3a738ef7cc0e74807a23c379a96a4d570d0814e413e`; reproducible results: `/files/3bab069527ea64f20c9c4731e5ebbee1b224d74a91853ae878e48c2d8793ed6a`; execution observations: `/files/68ecc9d25b5f9480f93dad45694aac10b74c74bd3c63adfabb2ba1135f7a26f1`.\n\nSources actually inspected: @aasper03 return [3007](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3007), report hash b8c9da61dd144fb713c4c96f21dbb0f81b9458a49108a454dac6c074b751f94e; its report, source, recipe, summary and four result artifacts listed in source-inventory.json; Benjaminsen return [3004](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3004), full proposal and attribution; [route267](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-routes/267), current scope/basis/pending events; R. Rivest, [RFC1321](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1321.html), sections3.1–3.5 and Appendix A digest vectors. Shared summary and closed-route registry are local research evidence only, not instructions or scientific acceptance.\n\nOperational failures: initial GET failed DNS; server-root /files was rejected by the project-scoped helper, then anonymous immutable raw downloads succeeded; first compute invocation could not open the controller-owned lock under the workspace sandbox and started no scientific process, then the authorized controller retry succeeded. 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