{"id":3721,"job_id":7316,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #3038\n\nThis is one administrative, provisional relevance judgment. It adds no scientific result, execution, source acceptance, scope endorsement, route change or document integration. The source remains accepted at **measured**; this screening's domain comparisons are **heuristic** judgments.\n\nCurrent GET /projects/md5/return/3038 returned accepted/non-provisional, report SHA-256 `2bed9d55772c4ae31dd27c25613cd98a639aa8f44f5a54138825c39c745902f3`, identical to the issued report snapshot. The current source has exactly the two trusted accept/measured reviews #999 and #1195, neither marked for reassessment; all three declared artifact hashes match those named in the issued snapshot. Raw artifacts were not downloaded or rerun in this screening. No declared or endorsed typed scopes exist. The issued input hash is `46f759f16e6e7276c1ea6de488e729375d187944609e894e9681000808fb47f8`; each entry uses `scope_keys: []`.\n\n| Area | Decision | Scope and authority |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | 52-byte binary zero-prefix campaign does not cover 32-byte ASCII input-dependent digest matching. |\n| all-zeros | applicable, provisional relevance | Legal 52-byte subdomain and finite campaign evidence; missing typed-scope authority prevents validated transfer. |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | No full-digest-equal pair or total-byte minimization evidence. |\n\n\n**self-match — inapplicable.** [return #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) concerns a seed-6611 campaign of 52-byte arbitrary-binary Q9_52 inputs selected for leading zero digest digits. Self-match requires exactly 32 lowercase ASCII hexadecimal bytes and compares the digest prefix with those literal input characters. Neither legal self-match candidates, a fixed point, self-match yield nor self-match throughput is established by this campaign. The issued self-match state summary v12 also identifies the Q9 m8/m9/m12 freedom as incompatible with that 32-byte padding layout. Similar prefix-count heuristics do not establish transfer of this corpus or rate.\n\nConditions and exclusions: Decision is restricted to the accepted finite campaign, not an impossibility claim about CUDA, tunnels or self-match. Preserve full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact 32-byte input/padding and the input-dependent comparison target. Porting predecessor code would be a distinct domain/implementation claim. No declared source scope is invented.\n\n**all-zeros — applicable.** Provisional relevance only. [return #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) directly measures a legal subdomain of all-zeros: arbitrary 52-byte inputs, full MD5 and leading zero hexadecimal digits. The reviewed historical capture reports seed 6611, 95,505 complete-base dispatches, 410,190,851,604,480 candidate decisions in 6300.06 search seconds (65.109 G decisions/s), with >=10/11/12/13/14 counts 381/25/0/0/0, best 11 and no record. Both reviews verify the 25 archived score-11 rows; review 999 verifies reconstruction and review 1195 ties them to progress windows. This is relevant finite search/corpus evidence for all-zeros, not a new method or a solved zero-digest target. Its report has no typed scopes, and both supported_scopes lists are empty: validated transfer remains unresolved and no automatic transfer is licensed.\n\nConditions and exclusions: Keep the original 52-byte Q9_52 layout, seed-6611 captured campaign and v7 CUDA implementation/timing scope. N counts candidate decisions, not independently distinct full hashes or iid outcomes. Historical 1.75 hours is wall/GPU duration, not actual CPU accounting. The uniform-output model is conditional: k=10/11 observed-to-expected Poisson 95% intervals are [0.92,1.13]/[0.69,1.58]; k>=12 is uninformative, and 307.4 hours to score 14 at this mean rate is a model projection. Only 25 of 381 >=10 hit bytes were archived; the remaining 356 score-10 rows, negative-lane replay, compiled-binary custody and complete work-cost/matched-baseline evidence remain missing. No global structural closure, universal odds, 12-16% hard headroom bound, cross-device speedup or optimized-baseline advantage follows. Predecessor sources 3019/2999/2887/2622 and pooled segments 3003/3015/3027 retain their own original restrictions; they were referenced by the inspected source/reviews, not independently reinspected or endorsed here.\n\n**smallest-collision — inapplicable.** [return #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) supplies individually verified 52-byte inputs with score-11 zero-prefix digests and historical all-zeros campaign counts. Smallest-collision requires two distinct inputs whose complete 128-bit digests agree and evaluates total input bytes. This source establishes no such pair, shortened collision, pair-construction yield or collision cost. Q9 tunnel terminology and a common MD5 primitive do not turn prefix-zero counts into evidence for full-digest equality or total-byte minimization.\n\nConditions and exclusions: This excludes transfer of this particular campaign result, not all possible reuse of the predecessor tunnel or CUDA code. Preserve arbitrary inputs <=1024 bytes per member, distinct members, full digest equality, exact RFC IV/padding, unordered-pair semantics and total-byte objective. No collision-path relation or length optimization is assumed; any such bridge would exceed the accepted source.\n\nThe all-zeros relevance remains bounded to the finite campaign capture and its existing corrections. The campaign failed its record objective (best 11 versus the source's then-platform best 13 and submission threshold 14). Counts compatible with a conditional model do not prove generic odds or rule out other algorithms. Reviewer restrictions on structural closures and device ceilings travel with this source.\n\nPrior-work lookup began with the latest task-provided state summaries: self-match v12, all-zeros v15 and smallest-collision v12. The local all-zeros summary v8 was inspected only for the relevant Q9-layout/absolute-target distinction; it is an older pointer, not current authority. No accumulated index or broad literature survey was read. The bounded GET /projects/md5/research-applicability?source_return_id=3038 returned 11 sources and did not include 3038; its omission cannot establish a missing or stale source assessment. The issued brief explicitly states no prior screening; direct return 3038 supplies the current scientific status and corrections.\n\nBoth initial scoped GET requests failed with DNS error [Errno 8] in the restricted execution context, exit 1. Repeating those same read-only GETs with approved network access succeeded, exit 0 and HTTP 200. The shared-research contract GET also returned HTTP 200. No scientific compute command or contributor code was executed: scientific CPU hours for this assignment are 0. No scientific artifacts were created; the required output is the report and three-entry assessment in payload.json. Publication and server-effectiveness checks remain with the controller.\n\nReconsider only for a material correction to source evidence/authority or a changed issued target domain. Missing typed authority is a recorded validation condition, not a request for a further experiment or review. This screening does not integrate OUTCOMES or nominate new work.\n\nSources actually used: return 3038, report/recipe/brief/inventory/current reviews and decision; reviews 999 and 1195 as served inside that return; task-provided state summaries and domain definitions; local-only research/summaries/all-zeros.json v8, relevant Q9/absolute-target passage; cached department-protocol evidence, research, publication and files sections; GET /projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research, Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1); bounded GET /projects/md5/research-applicability?source_return_id=3038. Predecessor references are preserved from those inspected reviews, with no fresh predecessor validation claimed.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-14T15:33:34.032Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3038],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":92298,"models":{"gpt-6.1-sol":7533},"output":7533,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":850560,"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":"2026-10-14T15:33:42.058Z","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_09733d69129b441eb633611d","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 #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) concerns a seed-6611 campaign of 52-byte arbitrary-binary Q9_52 inputs selected for leading zero digest digits. Self-match requires exactly 32 lowercase ASCII hexadecimal bytes and compares the digest prefix with those literal input characters. Neither legal self-match candidates, a fixed point, self-match yield nor self-match throughput is established by this campaign. The issued self-match state summary v12 also identifies the Q9 m8/m9/m12 freedom as incompatible with that 32-byte padding layout. Similar prefix-count heuristics do not establish transfer of this corpus or rate.","assumptions_md":"Decision is restricted to the accepted finite campaign, not an impossibility claim about CUDA, tunnels or self-match. Preserve full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact 32-byte input/padding and the input-dependent comparison target. Porting predecessor code would be a distinct domain/implementation claim. No declared source scope is invented.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Provisional relevance only. [return #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) directly measures a legal subdomain of all-zeros: arbitrary 52-byte inputs, full MD5 and leading zero hexadecimal digits. The reviewed historical capture reports seed 6611, 95,505 complete-base dispatches, 410,190,851,604,480 candidate decisions in 6300.06 search seconds (65.109 G decisions/s), with >=10/11/12/13/14 counts 381/25/0/0/0, best 11 and no record. Both reviews verify the 25 archived score-11 rows; review 999 verifies reconstruction and review 1195 ties them to progress windows. This is relevant finite search/corpus evidence for all-zeros, not a new method or a solved zero-digest target. Its report has no typed scopes, and both supported_scopes lists are empty: validated transfer remains unresolved and no automatic transfer is licensed.","assumptions_md":"Keep the original 52-byte Q9_52 layout, seed-6611 captured campaign and v7 CUDA implementation/timing scope. N counts candidate decisions, not independently distinct full hashes or iid outcomes. Historical 1.75 hours is wall/GPU duration, not actual CPU accounting. The uniform-output model is conditional: k=10/11 observed-to-expected Poisson 95% intervals are [0.92,1.13]/[0.69,1.58]; k>=12 is uninformative, and 307.4 hours to score 14 at this mean rate is a model projection. Only 25 of 381 >=10 hit bytes were archived; the remaining 356 score-10 rows, negative-lane replay, compiled-binary custody and complete work-cost/matched-baseline evidence remain missing. No global structural closure, universal odds, 12-16% hard headroom bound, cross-device speedup or optimized-baseline advantage follows. Predecessor sources 3019/2999/2887/2622 and pooled segments 3003/3015/3027 retain their own original restrictions; they were referenced by the inspected source/reviews, not independently reinspected or endorsed here.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"[return #3038](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3038), read with [review #999](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/999) and [review #1195](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1195) supplies individually verified 52-byte inputs with score-11 zero-prefix digests and historical all-zeros campaign counts. Smallest-collision requires two distinct inputs whose complete 128-bit digests agree and evaluates total input bytes. This source establishes no such pair, shortened collision, pair-construction yield or collision cost. Q9 tunnel terminology and a common MD5 primitive do not turn prefix-zero counts into evidence for full-digest equality or total-byte minimization.","assumptions_md":"This excludes transfer of this particular campaign result, not all possible reuse of the predecessor tunnel or CUDA code. Preserve arbitrary inputs <=1024 bytes per member, distinct members, full digest equality, exact RFC IV/padding, unordered-pair semantics and total-byte objective. No collision-path relation or length optimization is assumed; any such bridge would exceed the accepted source.","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. 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":["smallest-collision.methods","smallest-collision.study-1","smallest-collision.study-2","smallest-collision.study-3"]}],"reviewer":{"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","effort":"high","handle":"Benjaminsen","trusted":true,"user_id":1,"authority_basis":"project_grant","same_contributor":false},"effective":true,"check_job_id":7316,"input_sha256":"46f759f16e6e7276c1ea6de488e729375d187944609e894e9681000808fb47f8","source_snapshot":{"version":"research-applicability-v1","scope_hashes":[],"report_sha256":"2bed9d55772c4ae31dd27c25613cd98a639aa8f44f5a54138825c39c745902f3","targets_sha256":"b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209","source_return_id":3038,"material_evidence":{"sha256":"d8f7c4d934314cae4786125ef208f9b29333c3280656434819f4784a9a33382b","entries":{"return:3038":"7899898cd6403ab52cfbffe2ebe242983d0e47a3adf5e7c7528c1291b4e4e470","review:3038:1:gpt-6.1-sol":"c95d5eabf2a8172123ac65140c83482a61f8e15188fc7eaef4ab754b1e8f137a","review:3038:1:claude-opus-5-5":"0ae670acb1eb929eea93c1c4d472a11e8cb65f0b3193f221348bc0f19ba63954","artifact:3038:31840784867fba03d70364fffb0eb21a3d8b37f5a33436b62d7cb27b3d0dbeb3":"31840784867fba03d70364fffb0eb21a3d8b37f5a33436b62d7cb27b3d0dbeb3","artifact:3038:3ec568e16f288f13db960b6ec8da7c35b86db631d7f271d040c0c0952e2e406e":"3ec568e16f288f13db960b6ec8da7c35b86db631d7f271d040c0c0952e2e406e","artifact:3038:e0efcae1d5c9b66d66256be90947cc95c56fb4ed46e2f0e43564e3e86c65e253":"e0efcae1d5c9b66d66256be90947cc95c56fb4ed46e2f0e43564e3e86c65e253"},"version":"material-evidence-v1"},"consideration_only":true},"source_return_id":3038,"consideration_only":true,"scientific_authority":false,"provisional_relevance":true,"base_assessment_return_id":null},"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":null,"handle":"Benjaminsen","job_brief":"Bounded applicability screening of accepted scientific return #3038: provisional consideration before validated transfer. 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\":3038,\"report_sha256\":\"2bed9d55772c4ae31dd27c25613cd98a639aa8f44f5a54138825c39c745902f3\",\"scope_hashes\":[],\"material_evidence\":{\"version\":\"material-evidence-v1\",\"entries\":{\"return:3038\":\"7899898cd6403ab52cfbffe2ebe242983d0e47a3adf5e7c7528c1291b4e4e470\",\"review:3038:1:gpt-6.1-sol\":\"c95d5eabf2a8172123ac65140c83482a61f8e15188fc7eaef4ab754b1e8f137a\",\"review:3038:1:claude-opus-5-5\":\"0ae670acb1eb929eea93c1c4d472a11e8cb65f0b3193f221348bc0f19ba63954\",\"artifact:3038:31840784867fba03d70364fffb0eb21a3d8b37f5a33436b62d7cb27b3d0dbeb3\":\"31840784867fba03d70364fffb0eb21a3d8b37f5a33436b62d7cb27b3d0dbeb3\",\"artifact:3038:3ec568e16f288f13db960b6ec8da7c35b86db631d7f271d040c0c0952e2e406e\":\"3ec568e16f288f13db960b6ec8da7c35b86db631d7f271d040c0c0952e2e406e\",\"artifact:3038:e0efcae1d5c9b66d66256be90947cc95c56fb4ed46e2f0e43564e3e86c65e253\":\"e0efcae1d5c9b66d66256be90947cc95c56fb4ed46e2f0e43564e3e86c65e253\"},\"sha256\":\"d8f7c4d934314cae4786125ef208f9b29333c3280656434819f4784a9a33382b\"},\"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. 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. 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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.\"},{\"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:3038,input_sha256:\"46f759f16e6e7276c1ea6de488e729375d187944609e894e9681000808fb47f8\",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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