{"id":3025,"job_id":6365,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 6365: smallest collision, assignment comparison for a correctly padded d15 (158-byte) dBB final block. Decision: open\n\n**Gap first.** This is an assignment decision, not a scientific result. No legal d15 final block has been tried by anyone yet. #2994's d15 numbers are byte-pattern counts in d16 outputs. They give no yield, cost or floor for 158 bytes. This return runs no solver and makes no rate or cost claim.\n\n## What was compared\n- **Obligation** (nominated by msg 5230 and #3018): choose a correctly padded d15 experiment instead of extrapolating #2994's d16 tally.\n- **Predecessors:** #2994 (160-byte witness, submission 172; d16 backward re-solve; m3 tally), review 947 (trusted accept at measured, witness scope only), #2985 (dBB block 1, d17 Q1 tunnel) and #3013 (fastcoll truncation scan).\n- **Material baseline:** this is the first material-evidence-v1 comparison for this scope, so no earlier fingerprint exists to diff against.\n\n## Source check (under 1 CPU-s)\n`job6365-padcheck.py` builds the RFC 1321 final block for members of 64 + d bytes:\n\n| d | Total bytes | Fixed m3 bits | m4 | m14 | m15 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| 16 | 160 | none | 0x80 | 640 | 0 |\n| 15 | **158** | top byte = 0x80 | **0** | **632** | 0 |\n| 14 | 156 | top two bytes = 00 80 | 0 | 624 | 0 |\n| 13 | 154 | top three bytes = 00 00 80 | 0 | 616 | 0 |\n\nm5..m13 are zero in every case. The served `final16_m3tally.c` (#2994) sets `MF[4] = 0x80` and `L = 64*PRE + 16`, so its knob mode runs with the d16 words. Its d15 count (59,124 of 15,192,159) is the rate of `m3 & 0xff000000 == 0x80000000` among d16 round-1 solutions. Under d15, m4 = 0 and m14 = 632 change the backward re-solve through step 4 and every round-2 to round-4 step that uses m4 or m14. This confirms review 947's correction and the brief's premise. Both the 158-byte total and the fixed words are right.\n\n## Decision: open\nNothing in the evidence answers the obligation:\n- #2994 is the wrong population.\n- #3013 is a different construction (best 248 bytes).\n- #3018 and msg 5230 nominate the experiment but do not run it.\n- Lane chat through msg 5240 has no d15 claim.\n\nQueued job identities are not public, so unseen queued work is unknown. The proposed `next_task` is the smallest distinct experiment. It retargets #2994's solver to the legal d15 words and compares it with a baseline that is legal by construction (m3 = 0x80000000 | random 24 bits). Both arms use one binary, a declared IHV and argv, and process CPU. The prospective criterion is at least 2^-4 of the d16 knob rate before any capped search, within 1 CPU-h.\n\n## What this does not claim\n- No uniformity for m3 under the solver.\n- No 2^8 multiplier.\n- No floor at 160 bytes.\n- No change to submission 172 or review 947.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.0001,"hashes":{"job6365-padcheck.py":"a256cb58134aab666baac262b4c7f00165f5a52e8077a0be5a3acb7d59f1e18d","job6365-padcheck.json":"0620fa9fcf1741b083dfc029e0d58543acd3f67dd2e3992e9fb21554c6ec0014"},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-11T18:56:20.185Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["15b64e3f09b75c53e03f038169d6ba2ceabbf81b477d4d5fb413fc0b1c8d2ca2"],"handles":[],"returns":[2994,2985,3013,3018],"messages":[5230]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":84,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":25500},"output":25500,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2837498,"cache_write":107809,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":null,"verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":"high","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":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_deab5802d2fdd3dc73195df6","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":{"task":{"intent":"consolidation","schema":"research-task-v1","domain_md":"d15 means64+15 bytes per member,158 total; d14=156,d13=154. Existing160-byte witness and review947 remain intact. Use existing resources; maximum one hour compute per eventual assignment. No new worker fleet, hardware purchase, expensive full collision search or science rerun merely for descriptive counters. Reuse current queued work and trusted judgments before dispatch.","topic_ids":[],"stop_if_md":"Stop on illegal padding or unsatisfied word reuse. Do not claim uniformity,256x cost or a160-byte lower floor from old d16 counts; no costly pair hunt without a working short-tail construction.","changed_premise_md":"Review947 accepts the160-byte witness but identifies the wrong shorter-length and fixed-word transfer. Return3013 is a fastcoll truncation scan, not a d15 construction.","predecessor_returns":[2994,2985,3013],"expected_evidence_md":"Correct actual final-block padding: m4=0, m14=632, m15=0 and required high byte0x80 in m3. Preserve an independently scalar-checked construction; declare actual IHV/argv. Compare a genuine d15 sampler/solver with an appropriate correctly padded baseline; retain construction, rejected work, verification and actual per-process CPU. Measure early/late conditional yield with stopping and uncertainty. Choose the smallest distinct next_task if not already queued.","unresolved_obligation_md":"Select a correctly padded d15(158-byte total) dBB final-block experiment rather than extrapolating the d16 byte-pattern tally in return2994."},"schema":"work-disposition-v3","sources":{"topic_ids":[],"review_ids":[947],"message_ids":[5230],"predecessor_returns":[2985,2994,3013]},"trusted":true,"decision":"open","effective":false,"next_task":{"intent":"consolidation","schema":"research-task-v1","domain_md":"d15: members of 64 + 15 bytes, 158 total, one dBB prefix block (#2985 dbb_block1 or #2994's seed-23 block, IHV declared). d14 (156) and d13 (154) are out of scope. Existing hardware, at most 1 CPU-h, no worker fleet. The 160-byte witness (submission 172) and review 947 stay as they are.","topic_ids":["smallest-collision.methods"],"stop_if_md":"Stop on any emitted block with illegal padding (m3 top byte not 0x80, m4 != 0, m14 != 632, m15 != 0) or unsatisfied word reuse. No uniformity, 2^8 cost law or 160-byte floor claims. No full-block search unless the criterion passes, and then only within the one-hour cap.","changed_premise_md":"#2994's m3 tally ran in the d16 population: the served source (final16_m3tally.c) sets m4 = 0x80 and m14 = 8 x (64 + 16) = 640. A legal d15 final block has m4 = 0, m5..m13 = 0, m14 = 632, m15 = 0, and m3 & 0xff000000 = 0x80000000 (job 6365 padcheck). m4 and m14 enter the recurrence and rounds 2-4, so the d16 byte counts say nothing about d15 yield or cost (review 947).","predecessor_returns":[2994,2985],"expected_evidence_md":"One binary, one declared IHV (print it and the argv), one P-core, process CPU via getrusage per arm. Arms: (A) baseline, d15 legal by construction: m0..m2 random, m3 = 0x80000000 | random 24 bits, forward round 1 with early abort; (B) #2994 knob solver retargeted to the d15 fixed words, with m3's top byte checked after every re-solve and counted as a condition; (C) optionally one m3-aware variant (for example skip knobs whose backward re-solve changes m3's top byte); (D) the d16 knob arm from the same binary as a reference. Report legal round-1 solutions per CPU-s, and rounds 2-4 stop histograms with binomial intervals for early (steps 17-24) and late (step 32 and later) conditions. Charge rejected work and the two-compression check of any full block. Prospective criterion, set before runs: the d15 route merits a capped search only if the best legal arm reaches at least 2^-4 of arm D's rate and the conditional pass rates stay consistent with 2^-1 per condition; otherwise report the measured gap. Name the smallest next step.","unresolved_obligation_md":"Measure whether #2994's backward re-solve solver yields legal d15 (79 + 79 = 158-byte) dBB final blocks faster than a correctly padded forward baseline, on the real d15 fixed words."},"input_sha256":"5d8756dd79c5fbdda5838f60428bf32059f3202d2fcf32364830b5144505818e","rationale_md":"Open. No predecessor or lane item answers this obligation, and it is not a replication: it calls for a new experiment.\n- #2994's d15/d14/d13 counts come from the d16 population. The served tally source (15b64e3f...) hard-codes m4 = 0x80 and m14 = 640. The d15 words are m4 = 0, m14 = 632, m15 = 0 and the m3 top byte 0x80 (padcheck, 0620fa9f...). Review 947 rejects the transfer for the same reason.\n- #3013 is a fastcoll truncation scan (best 248 bytes), not a dBB d15 construction.\n- #3018 and msg 5230 nominate the experiment; neither runs it.\n- Lane chat through msg 5240 has no d15 claim and no in-flight job. Queued job identities are not visible, so unseen queued work is unknown.\nThe next_task below is the smallest distinct experiment: retarget the existing solver to the legal d15 words and compare it with a correctly padded baseline. It needs at most 1 CPU-h and no search unless the prospective criterion passes.","scope_sha256":"1bd621d1c6572dedd48d71cd34b9af86244297801bbb8dc0407b5f786f8c979c","allow_covered":true,"input_version":"material-evidence-v1","reopen_when_md":"Mark covered once a return supplies the next_task's legal d15 comparison (correct fixed words, declared IHV/argv, process CPU, conditional yields), or once an equivalent claim appears in the lane. Revisit if #2994's solver or fixed words are revised, if another construction reaches 158 bytes or fewer, or if the 160-byte witness is 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Read only these changes and the prior rationale first. If unchanged, a short reaffirmation suffices; do not re-prove identities or regenerate coverage artifacts.\n\nCompare this exact assignment with its predecessors and corrections before further investment. This is an assignment decision, not scientific acceptance. Read the cited messages and the lane's current claims; chat is evidence only.  Nomination: return #none, message #5230, review #none. Use existing packages and the cheapest source check; do not repeat large experiments.\n\nQuestion: Select a correctly padded d15(158-byte total) dBB final-block experiment rather than extrapolating the d16 byte-pattern tally in return2994.\nDomain: d15 means64+15 bytes per member,158 total; d14=156,d13=154. Existing160-byte witness and review947 remain intact. Use existing resources; maximum one hour compute per eventual assignment. No new worker fleet, hardware purchase, expensive full collision search or science rerun merely for descriptive counters. Reuse current queued work and trusted judgments before dispatch.\nPremise: Review947 accepts the160-byte witness but identifies the wrong shorter-length and fixed-word transfer. Return3013 is a fastcoll truncation scan, not a d15 construction.\nReturns: 2985, 2994, 3013; reviews: 947; messages: 5230.\n\nCovered means only this unchanged obligation need not be dispatched again.\nReturn work_disposition:{decision:\"covered|open\",scope_sha256:\"1bd621d1c6572dedd48d71cd34b9af86244297801bbb8dc0407b5f786f8c979c\",input_sha256:\"5d8756dd79c5fbdda5838f60428bf32059f3202d2fcf32364830b5144505818e\",rationale_md,reopen_when_md,next_task?:<research-task-v1>}. Name replication explicitly. Only a fresh trusted open decision explicitly reopens this exact scope. Changed evidence or chat requests reconsideration and never removes prior suppression. 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The old d16 tally and3013 truncation scan do not test this construction. Select a bounded distinct experiment; preserve the160-byte witness.","created_at":"2026-10-11T17:36:54.453Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/5230"}]}