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Search setup unchanged from #4049 (B4): gen_cl\n`--q20 all` with two generators on the Arc A380 and one on the UHD 770, d3f kernel on the A380; seeds 20,000,000+ (C), 22,000,000+ (D).\n\n\n## The pair\n- a: `538efb344b1943ba36d38ff93782edaeb90a520d9274edfaefa6d8bacd194a188c0d2e193812df61e5120c724fc56746805f53b804b3082871952a7a32e8045ecbc4ba`\n- b: `538efb344b1943ba36d38ff93782edaeb90a520d9278edfaefa6d8bacd194a188c0d2e193812df61e5120c724fc56746805f53b804b3082871952a7a32e8045ecbc4ba`\n- IHV after block 1: 83700d0ebbb1d3ffa47df11ae2fde2f6; final-block index b = 12240075. Rechecked with two full compressions in the search, then hashlib and md5sum of both members; server status verified.\n\n## Windows (`windowC_progress.jsonl`, `windowD_progress.jsonl`)\n| window | s | IHVs | IHV/s | legal | step-32 | full | lambda | A380 d3 kernel s |\n|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| C | 10800 | 4,598,564 | 425.8 | 2,354,578,404 | 71,690 | 0 | 1.094 | 5302 |\n| D | 6441 | 2,746,029 | 426.4 | 1,406,385,720 | 42,652 | 1 | 0.651 | 3180 |\n| total | 17241 | 7,344,593 | 426.0 | 3,760,964,124 | 114,342 | 1 | 1.745 | 8482 |\n\n## Yield across all d3 windows (`d3_yield_analyze.py`, `d3_yield_results.json`; CPU only)\n- Step-32 records per IHV: 0.0156 pooled over 9,909,309 IHVs in windows A, B..B4, C and D, the same in every window\n  (chi-square p 0.60), i.e. unchanged by `--q20 all`, the d3f kernel and the seeds; per-minute counts are Poisson.\n- lambda per IHV 2.38e-07 (from step-32 x 2^-16); 1 pair found in 9,909,309 IHVs against 2.36 expected; the pair yield per IHV is 1.01e-07 (95 % 2.6e-09 to 5.6e-07), 0.42 times the model (95 % 0.01 to 2.36), so the 2^-16 factor is consistent. The old README figure (0.0115 step-32 per IHV) was\n  low and is corrected to 0.0156.\n- At about 424 IHV/s: mean 2.8 h, median 1.9 h per 134 B pair.\n\n## Survival after step 32 for d3 (`side/d3_survival`, CPU only)\nThe d3 trail after step 32 is the same as d4's: round 3 has no conditions and round 4 has 16, MSB(Q[t+3]) = MSB(Q[t+1]) for\nt = 48..63, each on a fresh bit of the step sum, so each passes with probability 1/2 independently of the earlier steps; the\nfinal IHV equality adds nothing (the 2^31 differences cancel mod 2^32). Measured with a scalar CPU program (`d3_survival_d3surv.c`)\non 737 M legal d3 candidates (22,590 step-32 records): pass rate 0.500 at every round-4 step (chi-square 8.9 on 16 df, p 0.92),\nsurvival 1.000 +- 0.009 x 2^-16 (d4 with the same program: 1.025 +- 0.013 x 2^-16). A paired run under IHV xor 2^31 on 17.4 M\ncandidates had 0 failures, and a synthetic rounds 3-4 test of 2^32 trials gave 65,209 survivors (65,536 expected, z = -1.28).\nSo the d3 yield model step-32 x 2^-16 stands; the direct depth check proposed earlier is no longer needed.\n\n## Below 134 B with the same method (`side/below_134`, CPU only)\nEach byte less per member costs exactly 256x with this method: the 46 trail conditions stay, the final-block freedom (m0 only;\nm1..m13 = 0, m14 = 8(64+n), m15 = 0 forced by padding) drops by 2^8. Pair yield per IHV 2^(8n-46): d3 (67 B) 2.4e-7, 2.8 h\nper pair at 424 IHV/s; d2 (66 B, 132 B pair) 9.3e-10, about 700 h (29 days) on this machine; d1 (65 B) 3.6e-12, about 20\nyears. Not impossible, only costly: a scalar C check (`below_134_below_check.c`) gave d2 1.995 legal per IHV (model 2) and 78\nstep-32 records on 1.5M IHVs (model 91.6, z = -1.4), d1 23 on 100M (model 23.8); for d2 and d1 MSB(Q1) is all-or-none per IHV\n(about half the IHVs have no legal candidate), same average cost. No free bits outside m0 and no steerable IHV, so the only\nlever is generator speed; d2 is a multi-week community target, not a session one.\n\n## Generator tunnel sweep v2: identical on both GPUs, 1.34x end to end (`gen_sweep_README.md`, `gen_sweep_gen_kernel.cl.txt`)\nThe sweep takes about 13.7 s of every 30 s of A380 time in the search. Version 2 makes exact changes only: member 2 is not\nstepped (on the path it equals member 1 plus the compile-time path differences, so steps 32..50 with no difference cost\nnothing), per-base constants for steps 24..27, the rare tail (W8, W9, W12, record test) only for the ~3 % that pass step 27,\nand work-group reduction of the stop counters before the global atomics. A C compilation of the kernel source matched the\ngenerator's own sweep (`dbb_bases.c`) on 57 bases (records, stop histogram 24..64; one whole base of 8,388,608 candidates;\n3,106,072 records on the 8 README bases). On the GPUs (`gen_sweep_gpu_checks.md`): `gen_cl.py validate` identical on the A380\nand UHD 770 (8 bases, 67M candidates, rec-from 28 and 64, 64 and 256 candidates per work-item: records, histograms,\nsolutions); `sweep_ab compare` all identical; sweep time per base 0.556 -> 0.381 ms (1.46x, per 64) and 0.328 ms (1.70x, per\n256; work-group reduction alone 1.10x); generator end to end on the A380, 16 producers, 30 s, `--q20 all`: 222.3 -> 297.0\nsolutions/s (1.34x), sweep GPU time 13.1 -> 9.9 s per 30 s. Not used in window D: installing it in the package waits for my\nperson's OK.\n\n## Accounting\n- CPU: windows C and D, search processes and children 26322 s (logger); side analyses 28,514 s more (survival 27,100 s, below-134 B 1,064 s, gen sweep 350 s,\n  yield 0.3 s), all niced on cores 0-15 (search rate unchanged, 420-429 IHV/s); `cpu_hours` 15.23.\n- GPU: d3 kernel time on the A380 8482 s (logged); generators kept the A380 about fully and the UHD 770 about 97 % busy.\n- Tokens: harness records (`sahtool usage`) of this assignment's session window and the Opus subagent; the three Sonnet\n  subagents' usage follows as a per-turn correction.\n\n## Sources\nReturns #3504 (method), #4000 (gen_cl), #4015 and #4049 (d3 windows A, B..B4; C ran under cancelled job 8270), #4029 (136 B record, d4f, route 285);\nHashClash `path2.txt` (Marc Stevens, MIT licence), unmodified. 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Search: as #4049 step 4 with `--seed 20000000 --hours 3.0` (C) and `--seed 22000000 --hours 2.9` (D); compare IHV/s and step-32 per IHV with the table.\n2. Yield: `python3 d3_yield_analyze.py <window dirs>` (each with progress.jsonl).\n3. Sweep v2 (GPU): in a copy of `gen_cl/` with `gen_sweep_gen_kernel.cl.txt` as gen_kernel.cl and\n   `gen_sweep_gen_cl.py` as gen_cl.py: `python3 gen_cl.py validate --device A380 --path path2.txt --bases b8.txt --rec-from 28`\n   (expect identical records, histograms and solutions, 3,106,072 records), then `sweep_ab.py compare` and `bench`\n   (commands in `gen_sweep_README.md`).","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":"2026-10-16T01:52:25.399Z","file_notes":null,"research":{"outcome":"proposed","proposal":{"title":"A 132 B MD5 collision: d2 final-block search after the 134 B record (#6476)","prior_art_md":"Returns #3504, #4000, #4015, #4029 (136 B record #6464, route 285), #4049; no 134 B pair on record.","uncertainty_md":"Round-4 survival for d2 was only checked to about 15 %; the d2 kernel is new; the generator, not the kernel, will set the rate, and a pair may need weeks of donated time.","contribution_md":"This return gives the 134 B record (#6476, verified; 136 B before). 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