{"id":3650,"job_id":7502,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":35,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Route 272 (L = 56 on Stevens' single-block dQ): a tunnel family after Q24 under fixed m14/m15 lifts the Q26 rate 221x and reaches one on-path Q29 at the route's threshold rate\n\nPursuit job 7502 on route 272. It builds on #3640 (condition table, g56r3.c, 99 Q26 blocks, surrogate tail) and #3630 (common.h, stock baselines). There is no collision and no record change.\n\n## Question and pre-registration\n\n#3640 found no message freedom for Q26..Q29 once m14 = 0x80 and m15 = 0 are fixed. Its next step asks two things:\n- Is there a tunnel that varies Q27..Q29 after Q26, or Q25..Q29 with m9 free and Q24 fixed?\n- What Q29 rate does a generator reach with it?\n\nPass: a family of at least 2^12 members, measured Q29 ≥ 8.4e-5 per CPU-s (2^-20 × stock's 87.8 on-path/s), and Q30/Q31 survival within 2x of stock's. Stop: no family of at least 2^6.\n\n`prereg.md` was written before any run. Its addendum (method change, main-run parameters) was written after the tuning smokes and before the main run produced results.\n\n## Findings\n\n**F1. Exact reduction.** Rung: exact.\n- Q17..Q26 stay unchanged with the round-2 words m0, m1, m4, m5, m6, m9, m10, m11, m14, m15 fixed if and only if Q1, Q2 and Q11..Q16 stay fixed:\n  - Q17..Q20 fix Q13..Q16, because each enters its step additively.\n  - m15 and m14 then fix Q12 and Q11; m0 and m1 fix Q1 and Q2.\n- A member is therefore a new (Q3..Q10) with six round-1 words equal. These split into two blocks that share only Q6 and Q7:\n  - block I: m4, m5, m6 on Q3..Q7;\n  - block II: m9, m10, m11 on Q6..Q10.\n- Q3..Q6 carry no differential conditions (dQ_1..8 = 0). Exact pair steps 8..15 depend only on Q7..Q16.\n\n**F2. Strict variant, after Q26 (m9 fixed): the family exists but costs a 64-bit inversion per member.** Rung: finite, measured with z3.\n- Block II runs backward cheaply: choose Q9, Q10, then Q8, Q7, Q6 follow. Uniformly drawn (Q9, Q10) pass exact steps 8..15 at 200/12,527 = 2^-5.97.\n- Block I must then solve m4, m5, m6 for (Q3, Q4, Q5) given (Q6, Q7). Complete z3 enumeration over 10 bases × 20 draws:\n  - solutions per draw: 0: 85, 1: 64, 2: 37, 3: 10, 4: 3, 5: 1; mean 0.93;\n  - time per enumeration: 0.16 s on average, at most 0.46 s.\n- The bases' own (Q6, Q7) have 0–2 extra block-I solutions.\n- So the family holds roughly 2^64 × 2^-6 ≈ 2^58 members per Q26 state (heuristic count; every member is exact). A step-by-step solver has a ~2^19 plateau, because of the 7- and 12-bit rotation lags of steps 4 and 5.\n- At ~0.17 s per member this variant loses to the after-Q24 variant below (F3), which yields fresh Q26 states at 43 per CPU-s. It was not run to Q29.\n\n**F3. After-Q24 variant (m9 free, as the obligation allows): O(1) members.** Rung: measured.\n\nGenerator `g56t.c` (#3640's tables and checks):\n- Block I runs forward from random Q3, Q4 with fixed m4, m5, m6.\n- Q10 is built as in g56r3. Q8 and Q9 come from g56r3's bit-serial solve for fixed m10 and m11.\n- Klima's Q9 tunnel runs on Z, with up to 16 one-bits of Q11 at positions ≥ 7.\n- A necessary 8-bit low-bit test for steps 9..11 aborts most solves early. In every sampled failure Q9 ended in 1111, so a 4-bit window never fired.\n- Words that change: m2, m3, m7, m8, m9, m12, m13.\n- Checks: exact pair steps 8..13 per member, then Q25..Q29 with #3640's OK() (conditions, rotation and exact pair step), then a full pair from the IV.\n\nThe 99 Q26 blocks of #3640 serve as Q24 bases. Main run on Apple M1: 8 processes × 1,500 CPU-s, charged 12,300 CPU-s including the 300 CPU-s run that produced the bases.\n\n| stage | count | per CPU-s | stage pass (log2) |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| members exact through step 13 | 1.247e10 | 1.01e6 | |\n| Q25 | 10,558,717 | 858 | −10.21 per member |\n| Q26 | 526,909 | **42.8** | −4.32 |\n| Q27 | 1,992 | 0.162 | −8.05 (surrogate −8.0) |\n| Q28 | 46 | 3.7e-3 | −5.44 (surrogate −6.0) |\n| Q29 (conditions + pair path) | **1** | **8.1e-5** | −5.52 (surrogate −6.05) |\n\n- The Q26 rate is **221x g56r3's 0.194**.\n- One on-path Q29 state was found. Its pair leaves the path at Q30, so survival is 0/1.\n- 8.1e-5 per CPU-s is 2^-20.04 of stock. That is 0.97x the route's threshold. The exact Poisson 95% interval for one event is 2.1e-6..4.5e-4 (2^-25.3..2^-17.6).\n- The heuristic projection, measured Q28 rate × the surrogate's P(Q29 | Q28), is 5.6e-5 = 2^-20.6.\n- **Independent check** (`verifyT.py`: stdlib, own MD5 steps, dQ from Stevens' published pair). It covered all 1,992 Q27, 46 Q28 and 1 Q29 states, plus 800 sampled Q26 states. All of them:\n  - have m14 = 0x80, m15 = 0;\n  - follow dQ through their stage;\n  - are members of a base (same fixed words and same Q1, Q2, Q11..Q24) with m3, m8, m9 and m13 changed.\n- Ignoring md5sbc's conditions at Q28/Q29, 107 of the Q27 states follow dQ to Q29 at pair level and 2 to Q30.\n\n## Verdict against the criteria\n\n- **Family:** met. It acts after Q24 (m9 free) and is O(1) per member. The strict after-Q26 family also exists, but each member costs ~0.17 s.\n- **Rate:** at the threshold, not established. One event; the interval spans 2^-25..2^-17.6 of stock.\n- **Survival:** unmeasured (0/1).\n- **Stop:** not triggered.\n- **Outcome: progress.** The Q26 bottleneck that #3640 named is removed, and the price of L = 56 moves from ~2^-28.9 to ~2^-20 of stock's on-path Q29 rate. Rates are measured, but the Q29 rate rests on a single event.\n\n## Limits\n\n- **Correlated bases:** all members derive from the same 99 Q24 states, which several g56r3 instances produced, so the Q25/Q26 pass rates are base-dependent.\n- **Timing:** rates are CPU-seconds on mixed P/E cores with background load. Tuning used the same bases.\n- **Tail:** the Q30..Q64 tail of these states is untested beyond the one Q29 state.\n\n## Sources\n\n- RFC 1321; Stevens 2012 single-block collision (ePrint 2012/040), published pair message1/2.bin (sha256 54bcb9a4…, 90774a64…).\n- Klima, tunnels (ePrint 2006/105).\n- Leurent, FSE 2007 (choosing final message words of MD5 collisions).\n- Returns #3640, #3630, #3617.\n\n97 of @Benjaminsen's returns wait for a verdict.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":3.65,"hashes":{"g56t.c":"e4aca345e82db9432f83b0a0a8f9a61163657c3b51c64d36ce6c16221b0c6b81","tun.py":"06a8093fe28e7386c83aaddd1aec930fcbbf99ca9374796af69678f1894d5adb","prereg.md":"3ad3f27e121d62f60f8eb9a5c5f51ff48fe024dd5c10f88608536455664bb1c5","blk1_z3.py":"4227f02526cfe68569efb51f1c205f7d9fe7ba82f95268db17fd3025885e615a","verifyT.py":"42afbe93f090975043f2cce21a0b612b0c6e8c1046cea3ee6fc4539d559eb798","results.json":"1ffc203d7148dcb4d2323977f32e16ace996718572904a604a21780bbb938f60","blk1_z3_out.txt":"f59d91993c7d1bd548fe89734047f67e09aeca756523f7ecc3e295db9c9e8521","main_runs.jsonl":"01acad0db97cb1c9309d3aeb21b62ae88d50332569fa2091f29a04f93c0efd72","make_results.py":"5ec0db84d3f098f1145969e7a1f2735f45955cf6b300ea8752e1200268c18d0e","emitted_states.txt":"556675062cc85e491b548a1458b8bc519178c2eb0345bb9f46beab8819398df4"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-14T09:01:45.434Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3640,3630,3617],"messages":[6037]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":138,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":168980},"output":168980,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":10593388,"cache_write":262256,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Apple M1 (any 64-bit machine), Apple clang 17 (cc -O3), Python 3.9 + z3-solver 5.1.0 (F2), stdlib Python (verifier, pooling). Strip the job7502-/job7484-/job7464- prefixes.\nInputs: from #3640 job7484-q26_blocks.txt (99 bases, sha256 b75d4811...) and the generator header tables.h (job7484-make_tables_r.py output, sha256 ef982ef6...); from #3630 job7464-common.h (as common.h, sha256 36d7d3c6...); Stevens' published pair message1.bin / message2.bin (sha256 54bcb9a4... / 90774a64..., marc-stevens.nl/research/md5-1block-collision).\nF3: cc -O3 -DZONCE -DQ7PRE -DEARLY -DEARLYB=8 -o g56t g56t.c; 8 concurrent ./g56t q26_blocks.txt 1500 16 64 16 <seed 7502000000000001..8> 100 > t_i.out 2> t_i.err (shipped: main_runs.jsonl, emitted_states.txt = all Q26..Q29 lines of the 8 stderr files).\nCheck: python3 -I verifyT.py message1.bin message2.bin q26_blocks.txt emitted_states.txt -> results.json verify. Pool: make_results.py <dir of t_*.out> verify.json blk1_summary.json (blk1_summary = the summary in results.json after_q26_family_z3).\nF2: python -I blk1_z3.py q26_blocks.txt tables.h <block 0,10,..,90> 20 (imports tun.py) -> blk1_z3_out.txt. Counts vary with seeds.","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":[{"sha":"06a8093fe28e7386c83aaddd1aec930fcbbf99ca9374796af69678f1894d5adb","name":"job7502-tun.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 94 (\"'secs': round(time.time() - t0, 2), 'path_hist': hist, 'changed_words': sorted(w\"), inside the statement that starts on line 93: stdout is the artifact and must reproduce byte for byte elsewhere; send progress, timing and rates to stderr. This one is a guess from the text, not a measurement: if the output is already identical from run to run, say so in your return and leave the file alone."]}],"research":{"outcome":"progress","route_id":272,"next_step":{"method":"Produce ~300 fresh Q26-stage bases with #3640's g56r3 (EMIT26 build, ~900 CPU-s, all charged), then run g56t.c (ZONCE, Q7PRE, EARLY, EARLYB=8, K=16) on them in the same 8-process M1 layout for the rest of the budget; verify every Q28+ state with verifyT.py; pool with this return's 12,300 CPU-s and report the Q29 rate with Poisson intervals and the pair-path end (Q30/Q31/Q33) of every Q29 state.","compute":{"ram_gb":2,"disk_gb":1,"cpu_hours":4},"failure":"No new Q29 and a pooled rate below 4e-5 per CPU-s (2^-21 of stock), or stage passes more than 2x below this return's on fresh bases: the 2^-20 estimate came from correlated bases, and L=61 (122 B) or L=62 remain the cheaper equal-length targets.","success":"At least 2 new on-path Q29 states (pooled >= 3) with a pooled rate >= 8.4e-5 per CPU-s, and the new states' stage passes (Q26/Q25, Q27/Q26) within 2x of this return's.","question":"Does this return's after-Q24 tunnel generator (g56t.c) keep an L=56 on-path Q29 rate of at least 8.4e-5 per CPU-s on fresh, less correlated bases, and do its new Q29 states survive to Q30/Q31 like stock's (24.8% / 1.57%)?","budget_hours":4,"required_tools":[],"required_sources":[]},"depends_on":[3640,3630],"evidence_md":"F1 (exact): with m0,m1,m4,m5,m6,m9,m10,m11,m14,m15 fixed, Q17..Q26 unchanged iff Q1,Q2,Q11..Q16 fixed; constraints split into block I (m4..m6, Q3..Q7) and block II (m9..m11, Q6..Q10), sharing Q6,Q7; Q3..Q6 carry no differential conditions. F2 (strict after-Q26): family exists (random (Q9,Q10) pass steps 8..15 at 2^-5.97; block I mean 0.93 solutions, z3 0.16 s each; ~2^58 members per Q26 state, heuristic) but each member is a 64-bit inversion, slower than fresh Q26 states. F3 (after Q24, m9 free, allowed by the obligation): O(1) members (block I forward from Q3,Q4; Q8/Q9 from m10/m11 by g56r3's solve; Q9 tunnel). g56t.c on #3640's 99 bases, M1 8x1,500 CPU-s (12,300 charged incl. bases): Q26 526,909 = 42.8/CPU-s (221x g56r3's 0.194), Q27 1,992, Q28 46, Q29 1 on path with conditions = 8.1e-5/CPU-s = 2^-20.04 of stock's on-path rate, at the route's 2^-20 threshold but from one event (Poisson 95% 2^-25.3..2^-17.6); projection from Q28 x surrogate 2^-20.6. Stage passes match #3640's surrogate (Q27/Q26 2^-8.05 vs 2^-8.0). Survival 0/1 at Q30 (unmeasured). Stdlib verifier: all 1,992 Q27, 46 Q28, 1 Q29 and 800 Q26 states follow dQ, keep m14/m15 and are members of their base. This moves the L=56 (112 B) price from ~2^-28.9 (#3640) to ~2^-20 of stock; PASS needs the rate and Q30/Q31 survival established on more events.","prior_art_md":"Searched 2026-10-14 (web): 'MD5 tunnels fixed message words neutral bits Klima Q9 Q4', 'MD5 collision chosen fixed message words padding tunnels single-block'. Inspected: Klima ePrint 2006/105 (tunnels; Q9 tunnel T8 changes m8, m9, m12 only), Stevens 2012 single-block (ePrint 2012/040; tunnels correct conditions up to step 25), Stevens' thesis (tunnel bookkeeping, free bits), Leurent FSE 2007 (choosing the final words of MD5 collision blocks; fixed padding countermeasure), earlier route sources (Xie-Liu-Feng 2013/170, Sasaki et al. 2006/074). None builds tunnels for a single-block path with padding-fixed m14/m15, nor the block I/II split used here. Project: #3640, #3630, #3617. Remaining gap: the Q29 rate on more than one event, Q30/Q31 survival of these states, and fresh (less correlated) bases."},"research_route_id":272,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_62911f8692f18f2c01e7d934","run_id":"run_d36c854f91b5c3e7f3ac2ad8","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"l56-after-q24-tunnel-family-rates-m1","kind":"throughput","domain_md":"Apple M1 (4P+4E), macOS, Apple clang 17 -O3, 8 concurrent single-thread processes, background system load; CPU-seconds from getrusage; Stevens' single-block dQ with L = 56 padding.","statement_md":"Under fixed m14 = 0x80, m15 = 0 (L = 56, #3640's repaired path and condition table), fixing Q1, Q2, Q11..Q24 and the words m0, m1, m4, m5, m6, m10, m11 leaves an O(1)-per-member family: Q3, Q4 free (Q5..Q7 forward from m4..m6), Q10 chosen, Q8/Q9 from m10/m11 by bit-serial solve plus the Q9 tunnel; m2, m3, m7, m8, m9, m12, m13 change. g56t.c on 99 #3640 bases, Apple M1, 8 x 1,500 CPU-s (12,300 CPU-s charged incl. the bases): Q25 10,558,717, Q26 526,909 (42.8/CPU-s, 221x g56r3's 0.194), Q27 1,992, Q28 46, Q29 1 on path with conditions (8.1e-5/CPU-s = 2^-20.04 of stock's 87.8 on-path/s; Poisson 95% 2^-25.3..2^-17.6; leaves at Q30). Stage passes (log2): Q25/member -10.21, Q26/Q25 -4.32, Q27/Q26 -8.05, Q28/Q27 -5.44, Q29/Q28 -5.52. All emitted Q27/Q28/Q29 and 800 Q26 states verified by a stdlib checker against Stevens' published pair.","assumptions_md":"Bases are 99 correlated Q24 states from #3640's g56r3 runs; tuning used the same bases; the Q29 rate rests on one event.","artifact_sha256":["e4aca345e82db9432f83b0a0a8f9a61163657c3b51c64d36ce6c16221b0c6b81","42afbe93f090975043f2cce21a0b612b0c6e8c1046cea3ee6fc4539d559eb798","556675062cc85e491b548a1458b8bc519178c2eb0345bb9f46beab8819398df4","01acad0db97cb1c9309d3aeb21b62ae88d50332569fa2091f29a04f93c0efd72","1ffc203d7148dcb4d2323977f32e16ace996718572904a604a21780bbb938f60"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Generator-specific rates; the reduction (F1) holds for any generator on this differential with these fixed words."},{"key":"l56-after-q26-family-exact-reduction","kind":"method","domain_md":"MD5 steps 0..25 with Stevens' single-block dQ, L = 56 fixed m14/m15.","statement_md":"With round-2 words m0, m1, m4, m5, m6, m9, m10, m11, m14, m15 fixed, Q17..Q26 are unchanged iff Q1, Q2, Q11..Q16 are; the remaining constraints split into block I (m4..m6 on Q3..Q7) and block II (m9..m11 on Q6..Q10) sharing only Q6, Q7. Measured (z3 complete enumeration, 10 bases x 20 draws): random (Q9, Q10) pass exact steps 8..15 at 2^-5.97, block I has mean 0.93 solutions (0.16 s per enumeration), so the strict after-Q26 family has ~2^58 members per Q26 state (heuristic count) but each costs a 64-bit inversion; dropping m9 (after Q24) makes members O(1).","assumptions_md":"Family size is a density estimate; the 2^19 search plateau for block I is an analysis of LSB-first solvers, not a lower bound.","artifact_sha256":["4227f02526cfe68569efb51f1c205f7d9fe7ba82f95268db17fd3025885e615a","06a8093fe28e7386c83aaddd1aec930fcbbf99ca9374796af69678f1894d5adb","f59d91993c7d1bd548fe89734047f67e09aeca756523f7ecc3e295db9c9e8521","1ffc203d7148dcb4d2323977f32e16ace996718572904a604a21780bbb938f60"],"transfer_conditions_md":"Holds for any fixed-word set of this shape; not a statement about other differentials."}],"topic_ids":["smallest-collision.methods"]},"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":"2026-10-14T09:01:45.434Z","index_held_at":"2026-10-14T09:34:23.239Z","index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"First update the online prior-work search for this experiment. If existing work covers it, record that and stop; otherwise run this bounded sprint on the uncovered uncertainty. Use cited published numbers during pursuit; their reproduction belongs in later validation. Build on the supplied findings; do not reconstruct earlier research. Return concrete progress and its cheapest credible check, a useful result for review, or a precisely scoped obstacle. Continued investment requires a distinct experiment.\n\nRead GET <project base>/research-routes/272 and return #3640. 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