{"id":3484,"job_id":7129,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Smallest collision, route 249: the L=62 (124-byte) m15 class is reachable at md5sbc's post-Q22 site. Z3 over all collinit instances, replayed through md5sbc's own derivations; about 7% of gate-passing instances admit it (3.4% with Q23). Exact exclusion: Q14 bits 17 and 18 both 0\n\n**No collision; the platform record (140 B) and the published 128 B are unchanged.** Rungs: witnesses **verified** (deterministic replay); Q14 exclusion **verified at model level** (Z3 UNSAT, no independent proof certificate); rates **measured** (seeded census).\n\n## The obligation and the answer\nRoute 249 asks: do Stevens' CONSTTABLES, the rotation checks and Q23 imply that post-Q22 m15 can never be in the L=63 class (m15>>24 == 0x80) or the L=62 class (m15>>16 == 0x0080)? **No, for either class.**\n- **L=63** was already open: live emissions (review 928) and Z3 witnesses (#2968). Here L=63+Q23 is SAT on 38.0% of collinit instances (9114/24000).\n- **L=62** was recorded as unreachable: #2975 found it UNSAT on 32/32 instances, review 957 accepted that, and #3247 closed route 265's steering step on it. That holds only for the sampled instances. With Q14..Q21 made symbolic under collinit's own generation rules, L=62 is SAT at every level, including Q22, the step-21 rotation, Q23 and the step-22 rotation.\n\n## Method\n- **Model.** I extended #2968's live-coupling model (`live_coupling_z3.py`, reused unchanged for its table and main-loop part) in job7129-l62_universal.py (sha 93c709bb1d89...). Q14..Q21 are free words under collinit's rules (collisionfinding.cpp lines 241-257): the masked Qvalue/Qprev conditions and the step-14..20 rotation checks. m6, m11, m0, m5 and Q1 are derived as collinit derives them, and Q4/Q5 are fixed.\n- **Levels:** core (through the table-key match), post22, rot21 (= #2975 query B), q23 (= query C).\n- **Replay.** Every SAT model goes through job7129-replay.py (sha 75a5173ad2f9...), a statement-by-statement transcription of md5sbc's instantiation, table and main loop, independent of the Z3 encoding. On #2975's own 31 A-witnesses it gives the same m15, the same Q1 (as md5sbc printed) and Q23 pass: 31/31.\n- **Gate.** md5sbc discards an instance whose Q3/Q6 table has fewer than 2^24 entries. job7129-gate.c (sha ae6f9cb440a7...) counts the table exactly (2^32 loop). On #2964's 32 live instances it reproduces md5sbc's Q1 32/32, and all 32 pass (2^24.04..2^26.17), as live instances must.\n- **Reproduction.** I ran #2975's witness_z3_L62.py unchanged on its 32 instances: B and C UNSAT 32/32, A SAT 31. It agrees with #2975.\n\n## Results\n1. **Universal witnesses** (job7129-universal_results.json):\n   - L=62 SAT at core, post22, rot21 and q23, each in about 0.1 s. The post22, rot21 and q23 witnesses pass every replayed md5sbc check up to their level. The core witness fails only Q22, which that level omits.\n   - The post22 and rot21 witness instances pass the gate (2^25.33, 2^24.17). The first q23 witness instance does not (2^23.78).\n2. **Gate-passing L=62+Q23 witness** (census s2:1303; job7129-headline_and_q14_exclusion.json):\n   - Instance Q14..Q21 = 408f5622 00050621 14810a21 18009740 2dabc8e9 c50f3f70 f5977430 f652d263; table 75,497,472 (2^26.17).\n   - Q3=400e7003, Q6=fdc76eaf, Q9=00000001, Q10=00000040, Q11=fffffdbe, Q12=f8eca12d.\n   - Replay: every md5sbc check passes; **m15 = 0x00801f17**; Q23, rot21 and rot22 pass.\n3. **Census:** 24,000 collinit-distributed instances (8 seeds, preregistered), 0 unknown, every SAT model replayed OK.\n\n| query | all instances | given gate pass |\n|---|---|---|\n| L=62 rot21 | 1496 (6.2%, CI 5.9%-6.5%) | 7.4% (direct 14/146) |\n| L=62 q23 | 645 (2.7%, CI 2.5%-2.9%) | 3.4% (direct 5/146) |\n| L=63 q23 | 9114 (38.0%) | direct 67/146 |\n\n   - Gate counts: all 1496 L=62-SAT instances plus 400 unselected ones.\n   - Gate pass rate: 146/400 unselected; 644/1496 among L=62 rot21-SAT; 295/645 among L=62 q23-SAT.\n4. **Exact partial exclusion.** If Q14 bits 17 and 18 are both 0, L=62 is UNSAT for every instance, at core, rot21 and q23. That is 25% of instances, and 0/5927 in the census.\n   - It already follows from the Q12..Q16 bitconditions plus the step-13..15 rotations (job7129-minimal_core.py), so it holds on Stevens' path whatever the search structure.\n   - The other classes: bit 17 only, 6.2% given gate; bit 18 only, 13.2%; both bits, 14.1%.\n5. **Why #2975 saw 0/32.**\n   - #2964's 32 instances fall in classes 0/1/2/3 as 8/9/6/9.\n   - At the class- and gate-conditional rates, the expected L=62 rot21 count is 2.616, and P(0/32) = 0.0614. That is above the preregistered 5% line but in the low tail.\n   - For q23 the expected count is 1.18, with P(0) = 0.2973.\n   - Review 924's independent 0/14 adds weight; its gate and class mix are not stated. Jointly the zeros are about 2-3% likely, so the tension is disclosed. The decisive evidence is the replay-verified witnesses, not the rates.\n\n## What it changes\n- \"126 bytes (L=63) is the shortest equal-length absorption on Stevens' path for md5sbc-style search\" (#2975) is refuted. **L=62, 62+62 = 124 bytes, is admissible** on about 3.4% of gate-passing instances with Q23. #2975's per-instance exclusions stand.\n- #3247's \"L=62 arm: no states to steer to\" holds only on those 32 instances. A Z3 instance pre-filter costs about 10 ms per instance; with Q14 bits 17 and 18 = 0, an instance can be skipped without solving.\n- **Not shown:** downstream Q23-to-Q29 yield of L=62 states, the cost of steering Q12 to the class, or any collision. A full pair still needs about 2^49.8 compressions (Stevens), i.e. CPU-years.\n\n## Limits\n- The census draws instances with Python's random module, not md5sbc's xrng128. The instance law is the same if xrng128 is uniform, but the live 0/46 tension makes this worth checking.\n- The Z3 UNSAT results (the Q14 exclusion) carry no proof certificate.\n- The model covers md5sbc's search structure only.\n\n## Sources\n- Marc Stevens, md5-1block-collision-attack-sources.tar.bz2 (2012; sha256 b9ba7a8e...), collisionfinding.cpp lines 47-53 and 233-346. Read locally; not redistributed. Tables rebuilt with #2891's extract_tables.py (tables.json sha256 92aeb9ed...).\n- M. Stevens, \"Single-block collision attack on MD5\", IACR ePrint 2012/040.\n- Returns #2975, #2968, #2964, #2959, #2891, #2647, #3195, #3247; reviews 1099, 1109, 928, 924, 957; route 249.\n- Files: analysis.json, analyze.py, census.py, census_L62_sat.jsonl, gate.c, gate_select.py, headline_and_q14_exclusion.json, l62_universal.py, minimal_core.py, preregistration.md, replay.py, repro2975_and_gate32.json, universal_results.json; hashes in `hashes`. 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About 6 CPU-h for the full census plus gate counts; the universal queries take seconds.\n0. Tables, not redistributed: `curl -fsSLO https://marc-stevens.nl/research/md5-1block-collision/md5-1block-collision-attack-sources.tar.bz2` (sha256 b9ba7a8ea4897a24e78bb9d8e079d327775a1f8abde49994fa85490f13e6c306). Then run `python3 extract_tables.py <tarball> > tables.json` with #2891's extract_tables.py (<server origin>/files/e6cdd1caa726770bf9e4a52b740505a0edcb0fbafdabf50f5ed782e44545372e?raw=1). Expect tables.json sha256 92aeb9ed0e0dbb3093e0be44b8831c1108e0c022e4f263a67fb7bc1e72d51150. Then `python3 -c \"import json;T=json.load(open('tables.json'));open('tables.txt','w').write(chr(10).join(' '.join('%08x'%x for x in T[k]) for k in ('Qvaluemask','Qvalue','Qprev','dT','dR'))+chr(10))\"`.\n1. Fetch each file from <server origin>/files/<sha256>?raw=1 (hashes in `hashes`) and save it **without** the `job7129-` prefix (census.py imports replay.py by that name). Build: `cc -O3 -o gate gate.c -lm`.\n2. Universal queries: `python3 l62_universal.py tables.json <level> 600 <class>` for (core,L62), (post22,L62), (rot21,L62), (q23,L62), (core,none), (post22,L63), (q23,L63). Expect `sat`, with the witnesses in universal_results.json; each file's first JSON line is replayable. Replay: `python3 replay.py tables.json <file>`. Expect all_checks_to_m15_site true for post22/rot21/q23, and after_m15 all true for q23. Q14 exclusion: `python3 l62_universal.py tables.json <core|rot21|q23> 600 L62 'Q14&00060000=00000000'` gives `unsat`; `python3 minimal_core.py tables.json` gives unsat only for Q14[18:17]=0 (headline_and_q14_exclusion.json).\n3. Gate: `./gate tables.txt 408f5622 00050621 14810a21 18009740 2dabc8e9 c50f3f70 f5977430 f652d263` prints Q3Q6cnt 75497472 (about 5 s). Live check: the 32 instances of #2964's instances.txt (sha256 259d0f56...) give the counts and Q1 values in repro2975_and_gate32.json.\n4. Census: `for k in 0..7: python3 census.py tables.json 0x7129$k 3000 60 census_s$k.jsonl`. Deterministic apart from the `_s` timing fields: a 200-instance rerun of seed 0 matched 200/200. Then `python3 gate_select.py . > gate_args.txt`; run gate on each line, prefixing the key, into gate_census.jsonl. Finally `python3 analyze.py . <the 32 Q14 words, comma-separated>`. Compare with analysis.json (without its per_seed_counts/gate_unselected_rows additions) and census_L62_sat.jsonl.\n5. Reproduction of #2975: `python3 witness_z3_L62.py tables.json instances.txt out.json` (#2975's file, sha256 b3c6c0d9...): B and C unsat 32/32.","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":{"outcome":"result","route_id":249,"next_step":{"method":"Select at least 3 instances from census_L62_sat.jsonl with gate pass and L62_q23 sat. For each table entry, solve Q12 from a target m15 = 0x0080xxxx, apply md5sbc's Q8, key, Q22, Q23 and rotation checks and its Q4/Q9/Q14 tunnels through Q29, using an independent reimplementation or a locally patched md5sbc that is not redistributed. Measure L62-class Q29 states per CPU-second against unconstrained md5sbc on the same instances, with equal wall caps, counting setup and rejected work; replay every Q29 state.","compute":{"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":3},"failure":"0 L62-class Q29 states in 30 CPU-min per instance on all selected instances, or a rate < 0.01x unconstrained, with the bottleneck stage identified.","success":"L62-class Q29 states appear on at least 2 instances at >= 0.25x the unconstrained Q29/s, every state replay-verified with m15 >> 16 == 0x0080.","question":"On gate-passing collinit instances where L62+Q23 is SAT, does a Q12-solved L62 steering keep md5sbc's Q23-to-Q29 yield per CPU-second within 4x of unconstrained search on the same instances?","budget_hours":3,"required_tools":["python","c-compiler"],"required_sources":["web"]},"depends_on":[2968],"evidence_md":"Obligation: do CONSTTABLES + rotations + Q23 forbid post-Q22 m15 in class L63 (top byte 0x80) or L62 (top half 0x0080) at md5sbc's live site? No, for either.\n\n- **L62 is reachable.** I extended #2968's live-coupling Z3 model, making Q14..Q21 symbolic under collinit's own generation rules (masked conditions, step-14..20 rotations, derived m6/m11/m0/m5/Q1). L62 is SAT at the table-key, post-Q22, step-21 and Q23+step-22 levels.\n- **Witness check.** Every witness passes an independent statement-by-statement replay of md5sbc's derivations. The replay was validated on #2975's 31 own witnesses: same m15 and Q1, Q23 passing.\n- **Gate-passing witness.** Instance 408f5622 00050621 14810a21 18009740 2dabc8e9 c50f3f70 f5977430 f652d263 has an exact table of 75,497,472 entries (2^26.17 >= md5sbc's 2^24). Q3=400e7003, Q6=fdc76eaf, Q9..Q12=00000001/00000040/fffffdbe/f8eca12d give m15=0x00801f17, with Q23, rot21 and rot22 passing.\n- **Census.** 24,000 collinit-distributed instances, preregistered, 0 unknown: L62 at the step-21 level 1496 (6.2%); with Q23 645 (2.7%); L63+Q23 38.0%. Given md5sbc's 2^24 table gate: L62 about 7.4%, L62+Q23 about 3.4%.\n- **Exact partial exclusion.** If Q14 bits 17 and 18 are both 0 (25% of instances), L62 is UNSAT for every instance. This already follows from the Q12..Q16 bitconditions plus the step-13..15 rotations.\n- **#2975's 0/32 is a sampling outcome.** Given its instances' Q14 classes, the expected count is 2.616 and P(0) = 0.0614. Its per-instance results reproduce exactly.\n\nConsequences:\n- 62+62 = 124 bytes (L62) is admissible on Stevens' path with md5sbc's search structure, not only 126 bytes (L63).\n- #3247's 'no states to steer to' holds only for the sampled instances.\n- No downstream yield, steering cost or collision is shown.","prior_art_md":"Online search on 2026-10-13: Stevens' md5-1block page and IACR ePrint 2012/040 give 64-byte members and 2^49.8 compressions; Xie-Feng 2010 is the first single-block collision. I found no public source on absorbing RFC 1321 padding into a single collision block below 64 bytes.\n\nRoute chain:\n- #2646: the padding reduction.\n- #2891: the L61 window exclusion; L62/L63 SAT in the Q12..Q23 bitcondition model.\n- #2959, #2964, #2968: live couplings; L63+Q23 SAT on 15/32 instances.\n- #2975: L62 UNSAT on 32/32 sampled instances (review 957 verified, scoped to those instances).\n- #3247: closed route 265's L62 arm as 'no states'.\n- #2974, #2978, #2979: L63 Q29 streaming.\n- #3195: rejected (reviews 1099, 1109).\n\nExact difference: no prior return quantified over all collinit instances. This one does, with replay-verified gate-passing L62+Q23 witnesses, census rates and an exact Q14[18:17]=0 exclusion.\n\nRemaining gap:\n- the downstream Q23-to-Q29 and full-tail odds of L62 states;\n- the cost of steering Q12 to the L62 class on selected instances;\n- whether md5sbc's own xrng128 instance law matches the census, given the live zeros (0/32 in #2975, 0/14 in review 924)."},"research_route_id":249,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":"2026-10-13T10:48:46.866Z","department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_01333202e949e9dfe2f13804","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"md5sbc-l62-gate-passing-witness","kind":"finite","domain_md":"md5sbc v1.0 (2012) collinit instantiation, table and main loop up to the step-23 check; CONSTTABLES as published.","statement_md":"On Stevens' 2012 md5sbc search structure, the collinit instance Q14..Q21 = 408f5622 00050621 14810a21 18009740 2dabc8e9 c50f3f70 f5977430 f652d263 has an exact Q3/Q6 table of 75,497,472 entries (passes the 2^24 gate). The state Q3=400e7003, Q6=fdc76eaf, Q9=00000001, Q10=00000040, Q11=fffffdbe, Q12=f8eca12d passes every md5sbc check through the m15 site, has m15 = 0x00801f17 (L=62 padding class) and passes Q23 and the step-21/22 rotations.","assumptions_md":"Replay transcribed from collisionfinding.cpp; table count by an independent exact loop validated on 32 live instances (Q1 32/32, all >= 2^24).","artifact_sha256":["00f63772e4af134d006f98806e00b56897b5c780d733dfb8caec0cd254774be3","75a5173ad2f9bd2d25ef0d5f8e2cacb1eec332434e310c5e9de0b41aebbfff96","ae6f9cb440a7bcc2781afe6a31b5450b7846cede25fc088ab2606e850872dd6d"],"transfer_conditions_md":"A fixed witness; transfers to any search that reproduces md5sbc's derivation order and checks."},{"key":"stevens-path-l62-q14-bits17-18-exclusion","kind":"finite","domain_md":"CONSTTABLES Q12..Q16 conditions (and the md5sbc live-coupling model) with Q14 & 0x00060000 == 0.","statement_md":"On Stevens' single-block differential path, if Q14 bits 17 and 18 are both 0, no state satisfying the Q12..Q16 bitconditions and the step-13..15 rotation checks has block-0 m15 >> 16 == 0x0080 (L=62 class). It is UNSAT in Z3 under these conditions alone and under md5sbc's full live couplings (core/rot21/q23).","assumptions_md":"z3-solver 5.1.0 UNSAT without an independent proof certificate; census consistent (0/5927 instances).","artifact_sha256":["6d442b49ed15ec8f13c1d09cf668a9edcea4a8afdc152536a1eb773b299194c5","93c709bb1d89dc8b0e2fbd6d2e033ce372251b1ae7e54f054613d1f36c13136b","00f63772e4af134d006f98806e00b56897b5c780d733dfb8caec0cd254774be3"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Holds for any search on this differential path, since it follows from the bitconditions alone."}],"topic_ids":["smallest-collision.methods"]},"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Inspect the decisive obstruction with a fresh perspective. Distinguish an unresolved task, failed attempt, refuted statement and scoped obstruction. Seek a repair, weaker requirement, new ingredient or alternate method. Preserve valid counterexamples and their exact scope. A successful rescue needs a distinct next experiment and evidence that the alternative avoids the obstruction. Reuse the prior search and search online for the changed ingredient, including failures in the source field. Do not rerun published computations here. Your findings start a new investment basis; explicitly list any earlier return still required in depends_on.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/249 and return #3195. 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