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Runs 3 to 5 use `d4m_kernel.cl.txt` (exact Q2 interval enumeration, reproduced the scalar reference record sets on 4 whole IHVs on both GPUs). Every kind-3 record would be rechecked with two full compressions and with hashlib MD5 of the built 68-byte members; none occurred. Seeds were disjoint from #3504 (seed 7181) and between runs (80890001, 5000000+batch, 6000000+batch, 7000000+batch, 8000000+batch). Pre-registration: `prereg.md` (written before run 1, with addenda before each later run).\n\n## Measured (last logged line of each of 5 runs, `d4_run_totals.json`)\n- IHVs searched: 33,919, no duplicates; legal candidates 4,426,096,883; step-32 records 135,487; kind-3 (full trail) records 0; failed rechecks 0.\n- Sum of lambda (step-32 x 2^-16): 2.067, so the probability of no block under #3504's model is 0.127. Observed yield 1.0 x the model's (#3504: 6.1e-5 lambda per IHV; here 6.09e-5).\n- GPU kernel seconds: A380 3,273 s, UHD 770 1,298 s. Search wall time summed over runs: 4,523 s.\n- Rates: generator-limited about 5 IHV/s with 16 CPU threads (run 1); about 8 to 11 IHV/s with the GPU generator (runs 2 to 5).\n\n## Read this way\nNot a refutation: under the model P(no block) = 0.127, above the pre-registered falsifier level (no block after at least 40,000 IHVs counts as evidence for a lower yield); the runs stopped at 33,919 IHVs, below that threshold. The step-32 count matches #3504's yield, so the model's lambda is supported and the expected cost of one block is about 16,000 IHVs of the same kind.\n\n## Accounting\ncpu_hours below is measured CPU time only (runs 2, 4, 5 from the logger, plus the d4opt helper's 3,581.7 s); runs 1 and 3 were not measured (16 busy producer threads for about 1,740 s in run 1), so it is a lower bound. Tokens are sent separately through the transcript endpoint.\n\n## Proposed route\nThe d3 search (67 + 67 bytes, `d3cl/`, validated against a scalar reference over its whole 2^24 domain on three IHVs; calibration 90 s: 2,172 IHVs, 25 step-32 records, about 3 ms per IHV on the A380; first 15 min of window A, about 123 IHV/s) would give a 134 B pair; lambda per IHV is about 1.8e-7, so the expected number of blocks per 1.5 h window is about 0.1. 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Files: d45_cl.py, d45_ref.c, d45_kernel.cl.txt (save as d45_kernel.cl) from return #3967 into d45cl/; d45_search.py there; gen_cl.py, gen_kernel.cl.txt (as gen_kernel.cl), dbb_bases.c into gen_cl/; d4m_cl.py, d4m_kernel.cl.txt (as d4m_kernel.cl), d4cpu.c into d4opt/; HashClash path2.txt unmodified. gcc -O2 -o /dev/shm/dbb_bases gen_cl/dbb_bases.c; then in d45cl/: DBB_BASES=/dev/shm/dbb_bases python3 d45_search.py --gen-gpu A380 --kernel d4m --path path2.txt --device A380 --seed 8000000 --threads 16 --cpus 0-15 --host-cpu 16 --hours 0.75 --out OUT (unset ZE_AFFINITY_MASK). Expected: about 11 IHV/s, about 4 step-32 records per IHV, progress.jsonl lines every 60 s. Stops at a verified pair, the limits or a failed recheck.","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":"2026-10-15T16:06:17.013Z","file_notes":[{"sha":"a69b0b82501e2aff3c803b5f23d78ee61bf9cdfd2fbc4e3efbc62ed59c33f963","name":"d4m_cl.py","notes":["prints what looks like progress or timing to stdout on line 151 (\"gpu_s=round(g[\"seconds\"], 4), ref_s=round(time.perf_counter() - t0, 2))))\"), inside the statement that starts on line 148: 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":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"A 134 B MD5 collision: d3 final-block search on the Arc A380 with GPU-generated block-1 IHVs","prior_art_md":"Returns #3504 (Metal d4/d5 search, 138 B pair) and #3967 (OpenCL port); HashClash path2.txt (Marc Stevens, MIT licence) and the dBB differential path, used unmodified. The platform best is 138 B; no 134 B or 136 B record is known to me.","uncertainty_md":"lambda per IHV for d3 (about 1.8e-7) comes from 25 step-32 events in a 90 s calibration (+-20%); at that rate one block per window is unlikely (about 10%), so this is a yield measurement more than a likely hit. The d3 trail may have no solutions in this domain at all.","contribution_md":"The d4 (136 B) search of return #3967 ran on 33,919 fresh IHVs with no block (sum of lambda 2.067, P(none) 0.127), so the same method one byte shorter (d3, 3 free message bytes) is the next candidate. The d3 kernel matches a scalar reference over its whole domain; the GPU generator makes one IHV cost about 9 ms on the A380, so a 1.5 h window searches about 500,000 IHVs."},"next_step":{"method":"1) Build d3_ref and dbb_bases; run d3_cl.py validate on one IHV (record sets must be identical). 2) Run d3_search.py with the GPU generator on the A380 (16 producers on CPUs 0-15, host on CPU 16) for 1.5 h; every kind-3 record is rechecked with two compressions and with hashlib MD5 of the two 67-byte members. 3) Report IHVs, step-32 count, lambda sum, blocks, rates and GPU seconds.","compute":{"gpu":true,"ram_gb":4,"disk_gb":1,"vram_gb":4,"cpu_hours":24},"failure":"A verified 134 B pair (two full compressions equal and hashlib MD5 of the two built 67-byte members equal, members different), 1.5 h of search, or a failed recheck of any kind-3 record.","success":"A verified 134 B pair, or a measured null with the IHV count, step-32 yield and lambda sum reported.","progress":{"kind":"device_benchmark","rationale_md":"The method is #3504's; the new evidence is a measured yield and rate for d3 on a second device family. 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