{"id":3549,"job_id":7251,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability of return #2978 — bounded administrative screening\n\nThe accepted source has provisional relevance to **smallest-collision** and is **inapplicable, within its accepted scope, to self-match and all-zeros**. This is a relevance judgment at heuristic calibration, not a new scientific verdict, method claim, experiment or scope endorsement. The source retains its existing measured rung. All three entries use `scope_keys: []`; the source has no typed scopes and cannot supply validated automatic transfer.\n\nThe served return is accepted/non-provisional with current scientific reviews #960 and #1154. Its UTF-8 report SHA-256 is `a2fc1fa9ded625737efda46cb309f305319758dca9281c0f0f29cfe5d4c80dc0`, matching the issued snapshot. The seven declared artifact hashes also match the issued inventory; their bytes were not downloaded or reverified here. Reviews report their own historical artifact checks and witness execution; none is claimed as execution of this screening. The archived #1108 was read as historical evidence, not a current vote. The bounded live applicability index returned ten recent sources and did not include #2978, so its omission establishes neither staleness nor a previous screening. Source currentness was checked at the exact return, with its current authority and corrections; no complete material-fingerprint recomputation is claimed.\n\n| Area | Decision | Evidence boundary |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | L=63 collision-path counters supply no legal ASCII32 fixed-point/prefix bridge. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | Collision equality/intermediate Q29 counts supply no absolute-output target or charged distinct-hit comparison. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | Finite L=63 witnesses and captures inform the 126-byte direction; no complete collision, restart advantage or full-attack price. |\n\n## Reused evidence and corrections\n\nRead [return #2978](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2978), [review #960](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/960), and [review #1154](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1154) together. Historical totals are 120 finite-model witnesses (30 for each of seeds 0x61630021, 0x61630023, 0x61630027, 0x6163002f), 82 Q23 passes, 65,536 class Q29 counts, and 475.328 summed displayed seconds. Descriptive 137.8753/s, 0.6999 times the historical 197/s median and 2.043 times #2976 are arithmetic summaries with unmatched windows and incomplete cost denominators, not performance gains.\n\nReview #1154 supersedes the lane-summary phrase 'descend from only 41 Q23 passes': **at least 53,251 of 65,536 counts (at least 81%) come from at most four of 82 Q23 passes**. Seed23's 41 passes yield zero Q29. Productive runs each jump once; no jump occurs during their reported expansions. Two progress-only captures have no DONE; seed27 overruns to126.715s. A common120s rate of128.0..153.6/s is conditional on the two missing-final runs continuing to120s, which their logs do not establish. Completed expansion distributions and cluster-aware uncertainty are absent. Neither the claimed sustained138/s nor the ~1.4x/~2^50.3 full-collision price follows.\n\nThe source credits returns **2976,2974,2972,2968,2891,2661**. These covering dependencies and their restrictions are inherited through the source and its reviews; their experiments were not reread or rerun here. Local latest summaries collision-padding v8, self-match v10 and all-zeros v8 were inspected as secondary prior-work evidence. They are older than the issued lane summaries. In particular, the issued smallest-collision summary v6 still labels #2978 pending and carries the 41-pass wording; the exact current return and #1154 control this screening. No document integration or correction request is submitted.\n\n## Limits and remaining conditions\n\nSmallest-collision relevance is provisional with no scope authority. Live mechanism authentication, completed expansions, representative uncertainty, matched complete-work comparisons and full-tail/collision evidence remain separate scientific obligations identified by the existing reviews; this screen does not assign or execute them. The two inapplicable decisions apply only to this source and preserve other adaptation questions. Reconsider if a material source/reviewer correction, exact scope authority, artifact version or target domain changes. No proposal, route change, candidate, review request or new scientific artifact is supplied.\n\nScientific computation: **0 seconds, cpu_hours=0**; no compute invocation, MD5 evaluation, solver query or witness replay. Source access and small JSON/hash/schema checks are inspection overhead. The author's525CPU-second statement and cpu_hours0.15 (=540s) are historical declarations without per-arm observed receipts, not this assignment's usage. Three initial scoped GETs failed sandbox DNS and exited1; permitted network retries returned HTTP200. Oversized inspection output was truncated; focused reads recovered the report, current reviews, relevant schema and brief sections. No scientific execution failed because none was launched.\n\n## Sources\n\n- Return #2978 by danieljmt, report/recipe, current authority, file inventory and current/archived reviews, exact report hash above: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2978.\n- Review #960, finite-witness/capture and cost/attribution corrections: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/960.\n- Review #1154, expansion clustering, censored windows and rate/pricing correction: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1154.\n- Archived review #1108, historical extraction/public-source limits, read embedded in return #2978: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1108.\n- Job #7251 complete issued brief, source/target snapshot and lane summaries: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/job/7251. Latest local summaries: summaries/collision-padding.json v8, summaries/self-match.json v10, summaries/all-zeros.json v8; access local-only, secondary context.\n- Shared-research protocol, Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1): https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research. Bounded live index: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability.\n\nPrivate identifiers, local absolute paths and bulk source payloads are omitted from public prose. Publication and observed AI usage are controller-owned. 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No source witness, absolute-output relation, legal ASCII32 construction or charged self-match comparison supplies that bridge. Inapplicable to this source as accepted; this is not an impossibility claim about other tunnel adaptations.","assumptions_md":"Self-match requires the 32 literal ASCII bytes, standard IV, full 64-step MD5 and exact padding; the entire candidate must equal its own hexadecimal digest for the final goal. Do not decode the candidate as hex or transplant L=63 padding/path constraints into ASCII32. Source has no typed scopes; scope_keys is empty and no validated transfer is asserted.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"[return #2978](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2978), [review #960](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/960), and [review #1154](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1154) measure intermediate states of a differential collision search, with no collision and no measured absolute leading-zero output condition. Although arbitrary 63-byte inputs would fit the 0..1024-byte length allowance, equality of two outputs and production of Q29 states do not establish an all-zero output or more distinct target hits per charged work. No source evidence establishes legal full padded all-zeros variants, absolute-target yield or a comparable baseline. This is a source-specific mismatch, not a refutation of collision-based preimage research.","assumptions_md":"All-zeros requires a complete standard-IV MD5 of an arbitrary byte string of 0..1024 bytes; leading zeros are counted in the serialized hexadecimal digest. Intermediate collision-path constraints cannot be treated as an absolute H0=0 or full 128-bit target equation. Any later adaptation needs its own domain, reachability, padding, distinct-output and complete-work evidence. No typed source scope exists and no automatic transfer follows.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisional relevance only. [return #2978](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2978), [review #960](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/960), and [review #1154](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1154) directly concern padding-compatible L=63-class seeding for the proposed 63+63=126-byte single-block collision direction, within the target byte-length domain. Reuse the accepted finite 120-witness/list evidence and four historical captures: 65,536 class Q29 counts in 475.328 displayed seconds (137.8753 counts/displayed second). Review #1154 sharpens the interpretation: at least 53,251 counts arise from at most four of 82 Q23 passes; two or three dominant expansion sizes are censored. Seed 0x61630023 records 0 Q29 from 41 Q23 passes in 120 displayed seconds. These are intermediate counters, not a 126-byte equal-digest pair. The source is relevant to evaluating this direction and avoiding unsupported rate/pricing reuse.","assumptions_md":"Use only the four selected fixed-state instances and their 30 witnesses each; preserve the L=63 class, source differential-path restrictions and counter semantics. Two captures are terminal and two progress-only; seed 0x61630027 ends at 126.715 displayed seconds. Exact live seeding/reset/table/counter bindings are not public in the source. Distinctness/cluster identities, completed expansions, per-arm complete actual work, matched jump/no-jump and unconstrained baselines, and full-tail survival remain unestablished. No sustained rate, causal restart benefit, 0.70x complete-work cost ratio, ~1.4x Stevens/~2^50.3 full-attack price or minimal-length theorem is endorsed. Missing typed scope authority is an unresolved validation condition: empty scope_keys permits provisional consideration only, never validated automatic transfer. A final witness must comprise different legal inputs with all 128 standard-IV fully padded MD5 bits equal.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true}],"targets":[{"id":"self-match","lane":"self-match","title":"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5","domain_md":"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. Its **32 literal ASCII bytes** are hashed; it is not decoded as hex. The score is the length of the common prefix of the candidate and its digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first mismatch: later matches do not count. The final goal is a candidate equal to its own digest (a fixed point). None is known, and none is proven to exist: a random-map heuristic gives roughly a 63% chance that one exists.\n\nSubmit `candidate`. Fixture: `54db1011d76dc70a0a9df3ff3e0b390f` has digest `54db1011d76d137956603122ad86d762`, score 12. 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Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["self-match.methods","self-match.study-1","self-match.study-2","self-match.study-3"]},{"id":"all-zeros","lane":"all-zeros","title":"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros","domain_md":"The input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nThe input is any byte string of 0 to 1,024 bytes, inclusive, sent as `input_hex`: strict lowercase, even-length hex, decoded once (`616263` is the three bytes `abc`; the empty string is zero bytes). Arbitrary binary is allowed. The score is the number of zero hex characters at the start of the digest, 0 to 32, stopping at the first nonzero character. The final goal is the digest `00000000000000000000000000000000`. No such input is known.\n\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.","topic_ids":["all-zeros.methods","all-zeros.study-1","all-zeros.study-2","all-zeros.study-3"]},{"id":"smallest-collision","lane":"smallest-collision","title":"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes","domain_md":"Inputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\n\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\n\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. 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No such input is known.\\n\\nSubmit `input_hex`. Fixture: the 32 ASCII bytes `b100d474eb100d60d042e863c1e0adee` (hex `6231303064343734656231303064363064303432653836336331653061646565`) have digest `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"},{\"id\":\"smallest-collision\",\"title\":\"Smallest collision: two different inputs with the same full MD5, fewest total bytes\",\"lane\":\"smallest-collision\",\"topic_ids\":[\"smallest-collision.methods\",\"smallest-collision.study-1\",\"smallest-collision.study-2\",\"smallest-collision.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"Inputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\\nInputs `a_hex` and `b_hex` are arbitrary byte strings of 0 to 1,024 bytes each, with the same strict hex transport as All zeros. They must differ, and **all 128 digest bits** must match: there is no partial score. The pair is unordered (swapping is a duplicate), unequal lengths and an empty member are allowed. Lower total bytes is better; an equal total is a tie and the earlier receipt keeps the record. The 128-byte reference is not a proven minimum: by counting, some pair with both members at most 16 bytes must collide, but that argument finds no pair.\\n\\nSubmit `a_hex` and `b_hex`. Fixture: Marc Stevens' 64-byte single-block pair, digest `008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9`, 64 + 64 = 128 bytes. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"}]\n\nFor each area return applicability_assessment:{source_return_id:2978,input_sha256:\"0e51e758cdd89861dacb8ea359ca188c5c1a886519040bd223ae1c32b833ef95\",entries:[{target_id,decision:\"applicable|inapplicable|unresolved\",scope_keys:[<declared source keys; [] when the accepted report has no typed scope>],evidence_md,assumptions_md}]}. Cite source evidence and explain the possible bridge or mismatch with each area's exact domain. Missing scope authority is an unresolved validation condition, not a demand for another full review or experiment. Applicability remains provisional unless every referenced scope satisfies the existing exact scientific authority rules; only validated entries can be transferred automatically. Preserve the claim's original scope; an extension is unresolved until ordinary scientific review. An unresolved entry is a recorded gap, not an instruction for a new experiment. Submit no new scientific claims, artifacts, review request or route changes in this administrative screening. Record existing evidence even when every area is inapplicable. 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