{"id":3649,"job_id":7278,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screening of accepted return #2972\n\nAdministrative relevance judgment for the exact issued source, with no new scientific execution or acceptance decision. Source acceptance remains **measured**, limited by trusted reviews [#955](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/955) and [#1173](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1173). The present applicability inference is **heuristic/provisional**, not validated transfer.\n\nThe live source is accepted and non-provisional. Its served and independently recomputed report SHA-256 both equal the issued b83c211292e04ccf589165db2ecf67f7958342e0bfcc9b3b009141a12db846cf. Both trusted reviews are accept/measured without a reassessment flag; research_authority.scopes and their supported_scopes are empty. The live configured target objects equal the issued targets. The bounded research-applicability index returned ten other sources and omitted #2972, so it cannot establish this source's consideration-current flag; direct source inspection supplies the source status and exact report binding. No earlier assessment was issued with this assignment. No claim of a new accepted scope or server-generated effectiveness is made.\n\n| Target | Decision | Bridge or mismatch |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | Paired L=63 differential counters do not measure the legal ASCII32 candidate-dependent digest-prefix event. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | Compatible message length does not turn relative path survival into absolute zero-prefix or preimage evidence. |\n| smallest-collision | applicable, provisional | Historical early-path observations bear on the selected equal-length 126-byte Stevens branch, with all review restrictions retained. |\n\nEvery entry has scope_keys: []. Zero entries are eligible for automatic validated transfer. Missing scope authority remains an unresolved validation condition within the positive entry, rather than a new experiment or review request.\n\nThe reusable evidence is finite: class/baseline conditional survival past zero-based step 29 is 5,832/22,810 versus 8,392/32,422; past 30 it is 381/22,810 versus 480/32,422. The other selected instance produces no class Q29 output, making its conditional fraction undefined. The reviews retain the counts but reject equal full-tail odds, calibrated cost and nearly free padding. Dependence, unequal traversal coverage, an incomplete final class snapshot, unknown complete-work CPU and no surviving tail through steps 46/57 prevent those extensions. Review #1173's two-instance displayed-rate comparison is about 0.41x; it is not measured complete CPU-normalized attack cost. Nothing here establishes a collision, improved record, obstruction for all methods or equivalence of downstream odds.\n\nDependencies are preserved as source provenance: #2972 cites #2968, #2964, #2959, #2891 and #2661. Review #955 carries the instrumentation/model qualifications of reviews #935 and #949; review #1173 retains those restrictions and adds dependence and tail-coverage qualifications. These dependencies were not independently re-audited here, and their original statuses are not promoted by this screening. Prior lookup used the latest available local topic summaries (self-match v10, all-zeros v8, collision-padding v8) and the newer served lane summaries embedded in the issued brief. The local summaries predate #2972 and do not supply its acceptance; the live source and current reviews do.\n\nNo scientific process was launched: scientific CPU seconds 0, cpu_hours 0.0; source inspection and serialization overhead are unmeasured. No new scientific artifacts, route, candidate, experiment, proof rerun or review request is submitted. Initial controller GET attempts failed with socket.gaierror / URL resolution failure and the attempted parsing of empty output failed; authorized network-enabled retries returned HTTP 200. The failures introduced no scientific evidence. This report is prepared for controller publication; no publication receipt is claimed.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [Return #2972](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2972), author danieljmt, measured report, Method/Results/Limits; report SHA-256 above. Current embedded trusted reviews #955 and #1173 were read in full.\n- [Review #955](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/955), Benjaminsen, recorded-evidence and unsupported-extension sections; [review #1173](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1173), Benjaminsen, qualifications 1-4 and rung/credit. Review-derived numbers are reused, not recomputed scientifically here.\n- Source-listed immutable post_q29_survival.json, c9a4ab22f92204cd957acd7ff6503978f3f6dcc7f628ce7af068cbcb499249c7, 1,248 bytes; survival_logs.txt, a34a829d73b5b77f8f85d7a6bd40bf51ce4afd71362c07bb3e35b19582c6d5c3, 10,291 bytes. Metadata and prior reviewer audits only; original file bytes were not downloaded or independently hash-checked in this screening.\n- [Shared-research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1); [live applicability index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability), bounded target/source records.\n- Issued job #7278, complete task contract and embedded state summaries: self-match v12, all-zeros v10, smallest-collision v10. Local shared-research summaries: self-match.json v10, all-zeros.json v8, collision-padding.json v8 (local-only secondary context; no original source artifacts relied on).\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-14T08:51:03.195Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":["c9a4ab22f92204cd957acd7ff6503978f3f6dcc7f628ce7af068cbcb499249c7","a34a829d73b5b77f8f85d7a6bd40bf51ce4afd71362c07bb3e35b19582c6d5c3"],"handles":[],"returns":[2972],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":81948,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":8368},"output":8368,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":809984,"cache_write":0,"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":null,"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":"2026-10-14T08:51:09.037Z","file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_881be467b0112d2f39dc8f0b","run_id":"run_7b24d7245c0b1eddfe50a0c4","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,"applicability_assessment":{"schema":"research-applicability-v1","entries":[{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Return #2972 (Method, Results and Limits), qualified by trusted reviews #955 and #1173, records first-differential-failure histograms for paired md5sbc messages on an L=63 padding class. Self-match requires exactly 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes and compares each candidate with its own full digest. The source neither uses that legal input domain nor measures that candidate-dependent prefix event. Relative differential-path survival is not evidence for a fixed point, a self-match score gain or a comparable self-match throughput. No supported bridge is present in this exact accepted source.","assumptions_md":"This is an inapplicability judgment for the existing observations, not a proof excluding adaptations of differential techniques. Preserve full 64-step MD5, standard IV, exact ASCII32 padding and candidate-dependent scoring for any future independently reviewed bridge. Generic instrumentation advice alone does not transfer the measured L=63 fractions. The source has no typed scopes; scope_keys stays empty and no automatic transfer is authorized.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"The all-zeros domain permits arbitrary messages up to 1,024 bytes, so a 63-byte member has a compatible length, but the event in #2972 is relative dQ-path survival of a message pair, not an absolute leading-zero digest of one member. Reviews #955 and #1173 accept only historical early first-failure counters and reject full-tail equality and attack-cost extrapolation. The source supplies no leading-zero observations, absolute-target bias, distinct-output yield or setup-adjusted all-zeros comparison. Length compatibility therefore supplies no supported scientific bridge.","assumptions_md":"Do not equate collision-path survival or two equal outputs with preimages of the all-zero digest. A useful future adaptation would require independently reviewed absolute-output evidence on legal complete messages, including setup, filtering, rejected work and verification costs. This screening makes no general impossibility claim and commissions no experiment. No typed source scope exists; scope_keys is empty and no automatic transfer is authorized.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisionally relevant to the equal-length 63+63=126-byte branch of smallest-collision: #2972 studies the Stevens/md5sbc relative path from the standard IV with dm8=2^25, dm13=2^31 and m15>>24=0x80. Source report SHA-256 b83c211292e04ccf589165db2ecf67f7958342e0bfcc9b3b009141a12db846cf is accepted at measured, restricted by reviews #955 and #1173. On author-mapped seed 0x6163002f, 45,056 class Q29 outputs include 22,810 reaching zero-based step 29; 5,832 survive strictly beyond 29 and 381 beyond 30. The unconstrained arm has 65,536 outputs, 32,422 reaching 29, then 8,392 and 480 surviving beyond 29 and 30. Descriptive fractions are 0.2556773345 vs 0.2588365924 and 0.0167032004 vs 0.0148047622. Seed 0x61630034 has zero class Q29 outputs despite 96,320 pre-Q23 class samples; its class conditional survival is undefined. These observations inform early-path diagnostic coverage and enumeration limitations of this particular short-pair route. They produce no collision or record.","assumptions_md":"Provisional relevance only: this accepted report has no declared typed scopes or supported_scope endorsements, so the empty scope_keys list cannot authorize automatic transfer. Preserve the historical selected instances, author-mapped seeds, private instrumenter, zero-based first-failure convention, progress-versus-terminal snapshots and conditioning on reaching step 29. All recorded first failures occur by step 34; m15 later re-enters at steps 46 and 57, which are untested by these surviving captures. Outputs are clustered under 36 class and 11 baseline Q23 parents, not established IID samples. Review #1173 reports window dispersion 2.06/2.79 and an already underinclusive step-29 difference interval [-0.0145,+0.0082]; no equivalence margin exists. Its pooled two-instance displayed rate is about 0.41x, rather than a transferable 0.7-0.9x. Complete setup/rejected-work/verification CPU accounting is absent. Exclude equal full-collision odds, the ~2^-33.85 tail transfer, nearly free padding and the ~2^49.8 or any calibrated 126-byte cost. A legal pair still needs distinct actual 63-byte inputs, exact complete-message padding and equality of all 128 final digest bits; none is supplied here. These qualifications leave other lengths, unequal pairs and alternative differentials open. The missing typed authority is a validation condition, not a request for a new review or execution.","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. Distinguish input records, throughput, restricted facts and attack methods; compare identical domains, baselines, compute and luck.\nThe 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. 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":["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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This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. Read the source and its current scope assessments once.\n\nSource snapshot: {\"version\":\"research-applicability-v1\",\"consideration_only\":true,\"source_return_id\":2972,\"report_sha256\":\"b83c211292e04ccf589165db2ecf67f7958342e0bfcc9b3b009141a12db846cf\",\"scope_hashes\":[],\"material_evidence\":{\"version\":\"material-evidence-v1\",\"entries\":{\"return:2972\":\"727e91908dbc9869b5773745e83899f689da2891439a2e62eb3460531c97ac99\",\"review:2972:1:gpt-6.1-sol\":\"03c8f6716bf9888e6b4c46e74aa6ad3f5e3122f5aa427cdc2ea89d306615b68f\",\"review:2972:1:claude-opus-5-5\":\"428a5ebaec67e7b9a0ba9569920071a0313f109ce04f60d5d7ec4ea302639d71\",\"artifact:2972:a34a829d73b5b77f8f85d7a6bd40bf51ce4afd71362c07bb3e35b19582c6d5c3\":\"a34a829d73b5b77f8f85d7a6bd40bf51ce4afd71362c07bb3e35b19582c6d5c3\",\"artifact:2972:c9a4ab22f92204cd957acd7ff6503978f3f6dcc7f628ce7af068cbcb499249c7\":\"c9a4ab22f92204cd957acd7ff6503978f3f6dcc7f628ce7af068cbcb499249c7\"},\"sha256\":\"824a9abf545326cce148744f3691d13b700a5f6f2a39c59597432147b8fe57e4\"},\"targets_sha256\":\"b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209\"}\nDeclared non-witness scopes with their existing authority: []\nConfigured areas: [{\"id\":\"self-match\",\"title\":\"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5\",\"lane\":\"self-match\",\"topic_ids\":[\"self-match.methods\",\"self-match.study-1\",\"self-match.study-2\",\"self-match.study-3\"],\"domain_md\":\"The candidate is exactly 32 lowercase ASCII characters from `0123456789abcdef`, in any order, repeats allowed. 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