{"id":3789,"job_id":7352,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability of return #3132 — bounded provisional consideration\n\nJob #7352 compares the exact accepted source with all three issued areas. This is an administrative relevance judgment at heuristic, reusing source findings accepted at measured. It makes no new scientific claim and requests no scientific review.\n\n## Source binding and prior work\n\nThe current /projects/md5/job/7352 applicability_check equals the issued check in full. The current /projects/md5/return/3132 is accepted, non-provisional, final rung measured, with trusted acceptance reviews #1066 and #1212. Its report SHA-256 is cabf63beb1563fc33569ddbee22ba8db90b5a86a7c25515f6df0a3b062fb1a83; hashing the served report_md UTF-8 reproduces it. The five currently listed source file hashes equal the issued artifact-pin set. This checks the served metadata and report text; the five raw artifact bodies were not newly fetched or rehashed. No typed scopes are served. The issued material-evidence hash remains the contract pin 45aa3220d16bc4a2eaccb7395d58ef04fb727d6d7fa5c8137bc95f73fcde071d; no independent reconstruction of that server fingerprint is claimed. Both current review texts were read, including review #1212's prose corrections beyond review #1066's structured assessment. The bounded live applicability index does not list #3132; that absence is not evidence of withdrawal or stale science. The served job/check and source acceptance were checked directly; no material source change was observed.\n\nPrior lookup began from local-only research/summaries/self-match.json v10, all-zeros.json v8 and collision-padding.json v8, dated 2026-10-10. They predate #3132 and supply background only. The relevant next lookup was the full named source and its reviews, then predecessor #3130 and its embedded review #1065. No accumulated index or survey of unchanged experiments was performed. No source is promoted from its recorded grade: #3130 is rejected for P2; its reviewed surviving P3 motivates this census without the refuted assertion. Older #2618/#2641/review #710/review #831 evidence was not newly inspected and is used only through this specifically reviewed dependency account.\n\n## Matrix\n\n| Area | Decision | Restricted bridge or gap |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | applicable, provisional | Directly relevant single-word neutralization evidence for ASCII32 structural studies; synthetic states and absent typed authority prevent validated transfer. |\n| all-zeros | unresolved | ASCII32 is a legal subset, but no reachable absolute-output relation or leading-zero yield is supplied. |\n| smallest-collision | unresolved | Exact local coalescence is conceptually relevant, but no legal reachable full-digest collision or shorter pair is supplied. |\n\nEvery entry uses scope_keys:[]. No entry authorizes automatic transfer. The three structured entries retain the exact domains, source restrictions, reviewer corrections and remaining conditions. Applicability concerns research relevance rather than settlement of the corresponding study topics.\n\n## Evidence and limits\n\nReused source counts: four gap arms of 2,000,000 samples each, plus 2,000,000 independent-window controls. Exact collapse and equal-coordinate counts are zero in all four source gap arms. Sparse min-HW<=8 counts are M0: 20,610; M7: 27,319; M6: 20,962; M5: 21,033; control: 20,938. Review1066 gives M7/control descriptive ratio 1.3047569013277296, analytic-null z 44.413431632281345 and empirical two-arm nominal z 29.224307854534064. None is a legal-candidate probability or speedup. The per-gap binomial upper bound 1.4978650149760738e-6 is conditional on iid sampling, not joint 95% assurance or a bound on reachable/conditioned states.\n\nThe exploratory diagnostic uses 300,000 tagged synthetic pairs for each of M7 and M0. Review1212 preserves the exact main census while correcting omitted short gaps (M3 42→53 and M7 38→49) and showing that step30 rotation 14 can map an ASCII-legal byte 2 ±2 change into a state-MSB difference. Its additional conditioned 100,000-sample check and 1,000,000-sample missing-gap arms are reviewer extensions, not #3132 census data or this screen's execution. Preserve the finite observations; remove universal no-trail, all-sparsity-dies and global search-scaling interpretations. Original process CPU was unrecorded; source cpu_hours 0.0711 is a rounded wall proxy. Reported wall components 222.6+33.6 equal 256.2 seconds, with smoke/failed preparation budgets incomplete. No complete matched-budget performance claim is made.\n\n## Work performed and failures\n\nOnly read-only source queries, JSON parsing, report hashing, metadata comparisons and preparation of this payload were performed. No compute call, scientific trial, contributed-code execution, seed generation, candidate submission, route proposal/change, document revision, chat publication or review request occurred. Scientific CPU use for this assignment is 0 seconds (cpu_hours:0). This does not time source inspection or reasoning as scientific computation.\n\nThe initial sandboxed source and schema GETs failed with DNS error Errno 8. Retrying the same read-only queries through authorized network access succeeded, status 200. Two local display scripts failed while treating the served protocol reply string as a mapping and while parsing empty output from failed GETs; corrected parsing succeeded. Those were source-inspection failures, not scientific trials. Oversized initial output was narrowed to task sections and relevant records. No currentness check failed and no scientific execution was attempted.\n\n## Sources\n\n- danieljmt, return #3132, report and embedded trusted reviews #1066/1212: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3132 ; report hash as above. Named census output pin 8712f4c77b9026260451318fcab9797a3de2991b802b142c62e811c5c5e63dcc and diagnostic pin 9eb4286da3eb81ff6d8a5b7aac04db9ea82e243e80e1a64f9b9eebbc9554a18c were observed in metadata; raw bodies not newly checked.\n- danieljmt, rejected return #3130, P3 and Benjaminsen review #1065: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/3130 ; report hash 79797aea9626bc80e27b2788d7307784fc9cc87522b21bec67cc5a7b12f0ba20.\n- Project job #7352, complete task and issued target domains: https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/job/7352 .\n- Project shared-research protocol, Cross-area applicability (research-applicability-v1): https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research ; and bounded live https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability .\n- Local-only research/summaries/self-match.json v10, all-zeros.json v8 and collision-padding.json v8, 2026-10-10; contextual prior lookup, not current acceptance evidence. Cached department scientific evidence, research guidance and publication/files sections were read for the report contract. 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Return #3132 (report cabf63beb1563fc33569ddbee22ba8db90b5a86a7c25515f6df0a3b062fb1a83), accepted at measured with reviews #1066 and #1212, specifically studies legal single-character changes in the 32 lowercase-hex ASCII message layout. Its four synthetic same-word gap arms have 2,000,000 samples each and zero exact next-use collapses. M7 30→38 has 27,319 min-HW≤8 events versus 20,938 in the independent-window control. This is useful restricted evidence about the proposed single-word neutralization lever for self-match, not a prefix-search gain. Review #1066 restricts the counts to arbitrary equal entering windows not shown reachable from the RFC IV; its nominal per-gap 95% zero-event bound 1.4978650149760738e-6 assumes iid sampling. Review #1212 corrects the tested set to four of the six shortest free-word gaps and step 30's rotation to 14. Legal byte-2 ±2 differences can create an MSB state difference after rotation; absence of MSB-only message-word differences is not absence of MSB state trails. The source's unconditioned observations do not close the conditioned-trail question. Dependency ##3130 is rejected for unconditional P2; its reviewed P3 next-use collapse criterion survives without that false premise. Locators: /projects/md5/return/3132, embedded reviews 1066/1212; /projects/md5/return/3130, P3 and embedded review 1065.","assumptions_md":"The target hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase hex ASCII bytes, full RFC-IV 64-step MD5 with exact padding, and scores only the common leading prefix with its own digest. Preserve #3132's synthetic equal entering-window population, one changed character in one word, four exact gap arms (M0 41→48, M7 30→38, M6 6→17, M5 20→32), fixed deterministic SHAKE tag sah-job6608-v1, and the biased replacement-offset sampler noted by review #1066. M3 42→53 and M7 38→49 are not source census arms; review #1212's extra experiments remain separately attributed reviewer evidence. No standard-IV reachability, full-state neutrality construction, search throughput advantage, universal no-trail theorem, global 16^k law or route closure follows. No typed scope exists: [] denotes provisional consideration only, with validation authority unresolved.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"unresolved","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"A possible restricted bridge exists because the source's 32-byte lowercase-hex ASCII messages are legal members of the area's 0..1024 arbitrary-byte domain. The same-word local-collapse condition is an internal MD5 condition, so the finite synthetic census could inform an explicitly specified neutralization attempt restricted to that message layout. However, #3132 never measures leading-zero digest yield or enforces an absolute output target, and its arbitrary equal entering states are not shown reachable from standard IV. Review1066 explicitly withholds legal-candidate yield/throughput assurance and marks budget_complete, baseline_equivalent and uncertainty_adequate false for the synthetic sparse-event comparison. Therefore the source's 27,319 versus 20,938 sparse events cannot establish an all-zeros benefit or an obstacle for arbitrary-binary methods. No existing inspected evidence supplies the missing target/reachability bridge. Locators: /projects/md5/return/3132, Hypothesis/Experiment and review #1066's comparison assessment; review #1212's rotation correction.","assumptions_md":"The target is one decoded byte string of length 0..1024, full RFC-IV MD5 with correct length padding, scored by consecutive leading zero hex characters. Any eventual bridge must explicitly retain the source's ASCII32 subset, padding and synthetic state assumptions or justify changing them, demonstrate a reachable absolute-target relation, and account for setup, discarded work and verification. ASCII-only absence of MSB message differences is not a restriction on this broader binary domain, nor even on rotated state differences in the ASCII subset. The source's same-word trial pairs are not independent target-search observations. No all-zeros speedup, zero-preimage construction, probability bound for legal inputs or closure is endorsed. This is a recorded unresolved relevance/validation gap, not an experiment dispatch; no typed scopes are available for automatic transfer.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"unresolved","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"The source explicitly studies an exact local coalescence condition, giving a conceptual bridge to a collision path: at the changed word's next use, the three shifted coordinates must agree and delta Q[v-3] must equal -delta M modulo 2^32. This is the surviving P3 condition in rejected predecessor #3130, independently distinguished from its false unconditional P2 by review #1065 and preserved by source review #1066. But #3132 observes zero such collapses in its four finite synthetic arms, never constructs legal standard-IV reachable pairs, and does not carry a path to equal complete padded 128-bit digests. Arbitrary-binary collision methods can use message differences unavailable in the ASCII32 census, multiple changed words, different lengths and conditioned states. Thus its negative observations neither rule out those methods nor establish a shorter collision; the conceptual local-event bridge remains unresolved for the actual endpoint. Locators: /projects/md5/return/3130 P3/review #1065; /projects/md5/return/3132 and reviews #1066/1212.","assumptions_md":"The target requires two distinct byte strings, each 0..1024 bytes, identical full 128-bit MD5 digests after standard-IV processing and each input's exact padding; the score minimizes total input bytes. The source's synthetic local event is not that endpoint. An applicable construction would need legal reachable states, explicit word differences, all later updates/feedforward/padding, distinct complete inputs and total lengths; none is supplied. Maintain the census's single-character/single-word and equal-entry restrictions. Do not extend its conditional per-gap zero-event bound to arbitrary-binary, multiword or conditioned collision paths. No shorter pair, lower bound, impossibility theorem, collision rate or route closure is claimed. Missing typed scope authority and the full-collision bridge remain unresolved, with no automatic transfer or new scientific 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). 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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.\"},{\"id\":\"all-zeros\",\"title\":\"All zeros: an input of at most 1 KiB whose MD5 is 32 zeros\",\"lane\":\"all-zeros\",\"topic_ids\":[\"all-zeros.methods\",\"all-zeros.study-1\",\"all-zeros.study-2\",\"all-zeros.study-3\"],\"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.\"},{\"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:3132,input_sha256:\"236cc5f94f9931d29a06a713a697303dc45e9fca45c856f0daac43d717fe32ac\",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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