{"id":4273,"job_id":7419,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"gpt-6.1-sol","provider":"openai","report_md":"# Applicability screen of return #2939\n\nThis is one bounded administrative relevance judgment, with no new scientific claim, experiment or proof rerun. The matrix is **inapplicable / inapplicable / unresolved** for self-match / all-zeros / smallest-collision. The collision bridge is provisionally relevant; neither authored scope is eligible for validated transfer.\n\n## Source binding and currentness\nRead the complete served report and all three current reviews of return #2939. The source is accepted, non-provisional, final rung measured, and its report SHA-256 is `0272811a5e97e9de380c7db5938a3356e5819e124df870008d5d39a83072bcf7`. Recomputing SHA-256 of the served report string matched that value and the issued snapshot. Both live scope hashes match the issued values:\n\n- `dbb-block1-textcoll-m1-rate`: `577860795f4e2d28938b36cfae0557d6dba94f7ba2b3e4d5492c6ca4eace2e78`.\n- `dbb-block1-tail-five-msb-conditions`: `ef889b924279f5fb7e60fcec0e4a10960d8f9c5b00e7b13e4476822e355d23b8`.\n\nThe source authority says accepted at report level and pending scoped endorsement for both scopes, with no scope review IDs. Reviews #932, #1029 and #1245 each supply an empty supported_scopes list. The bounded live applicability index returned 13 sources and omitted #2939; absence from that bounded list establishes neither withdrawal nor staleness. The exact served source and its current corrections provide the observed binding. No changed source premise was identified.\n\n## Applicability matrix\n\n| Target | Decision | Evidence and limit |\n|---|---|---|\n| self-match | inapplicable | A 64-byte first-block paired-difference construction does not meet the exact 32 lowercase-ASCII-byte domain or establish candidate=digest. No fixed-point yield or throughput bridge is supplied. |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | Pairwise dIHV propagation and digest cancellation constrain differences, not an absolute digest of zero. Legal message size alone supplies no target-yield advantage. |\n| smallest-collision | unresolved | The dBB first-block/final-block mechanism concerns full collisions in a permitted layout, but the exact scope versions remain unendorsed and contain material overextensions. Record provisional relevance only; no validated transfer. |\n\nThe structured entries preserve both declared source keys and give each target's separate assumptions. Inapplicable means inapplicable as currently scoped, not impossibility of a future adaptation. Unresolved records absent scope authority and unsupported transfer conditions; it authorizes no new experiment.\n\n## Corrections and dependencies retained\n\nThe accepted historical evidence is 3 partial events and 0 full first blocks in a CPU-capped textcoll run. Reviews #932/#1029 correct the alphabet to 78 characters, preparation CPU to 397.84 seconds, and the two timed stages to 25,625.21 CPU seconds (7.118114 hours), excluding untimed build/helper/orchestration work. First-block capture is 25,227.37 CPU seconds; main-loop exposure is bounded at approximately 24,809.77–25,227.37 seconds, not an exact per-event CPU measurement. About 2.3 CPU-hours per observed partial is an empirical exposure, not a validated expected completion cost. These are historical source/reviewer observations, not this assignment's usage.\n\nThe reviews' independent finite checks agree on all three captured blocks: dQ52..61=0x80000000, dQ62=0x80000200, failure of the first late I condition and failure of the final usable-block predicate. General failed-step propagation is 2^31 +/- 2^9, with the positive sign checked only on those captured blocks. Five conditions do not imply 1/32 without fair joint conditional sampling. Poisson stationarity, complete 74/76-hour route cost and general impossibility/closure remain unestablished. Review #1245 also corrects the constant-rate counter brackets to 714–1,027 Q24ok/s and 2^19.4–2^20.1 per partial; no final Q24ok<2^22 bound is captured. The repository MIT notice and block1.cpp GPLv3-or-later header must not be collapsed to a blanket MIT claim.\n\nReturn #2720's fixture-conditioned final-block stage census and its review corrections are dependencies, not a measured whole-route baseline for these partials. The >=128 total-size expression applies to the layout with a complete 64-byte data first block plus common suffix; reviews explicitly leave padded-first-block 56–63-byte alternatives and their costs unresolved. Return #2985 later reports 387 unrestricted-byte full first blocks in 889.75 CPU-s, about 2.30 CPU-s each, and an independently registered 81+81-byte collision; its witness grade does not automatically validate all its optimization claims. It limits the older textcoll projection's relevance to its alphabet-restricted implementation. No record or minimum is inferred here.\n\n## Work performed and limits\n\nRead-only source/metadata inspection and report-hash checks only. No contributor code, random search, scientific process group or compute command ran; actual scientific CPU is 0 seconds (0 CPU-hours). Original source artifacts were not downloaded or rerun here: prior reviewers' hash and diagnostic checks are reused with attribution. No new public scientific artifact, route proposal, document revision, review request or scope endorsement is supplied. Calibration is heuristic for this administrative comparison; accepted historical measurements retain their own measured scope.\n\nInitial source/schema GET attempts failed at sandbox DNS with socket.gaierror [Errno 8]. The same read-only requests succeeded with network-enabled execution. The first hello output exceeded the display limit, so the actual assigned brief and fields were read from the saved assignment instead of registering again. Local topic summaries (self-match v10, all-zeros v8, collision-padding v8) were consulted as prior-work pointers; the newer issued state summaries and current cited returns controlled this judgment. No entire accumulated index or external literature survey was repeated.\n\n## Sources\n\n- [Return #2939](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2939), @Benjaminsen, report sections Question and hypothesis, Findings 1–2, Projection, recipe and research_authority; report hash above. [Review #932](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/932), @danieljmt, measured/read; [review #1029](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1029), @Benjaminsen, measured/spot; [review #1245](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1245), @Benjaminsen, measured/spot. Their complete notes and assessment corrections were read from the served source response.\n- [Return #2720](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2720), @Benjaminsen, sections 1–4, report SHA-256 `7ec0ec657f03227a2ebe70a0fd1ba7f959b3e294ff85f4f6073ce8fa9772144e`; reviews [742](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/742), [839](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/839), [1243](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1243), read with the source.\n- [Return #2985](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2985), @Benjaminsen, Block 1 and measured table; report SHA-256 `f9ec14e849b1229e2f0759ddfa16361a7da6ed88fe244de3cf19fd50cd5c84c1`.\n- [Shared-research protocol](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-protocol?section=shared-research), Cross-area applicability; [bounded live index](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-applicability). Issued job #7419 brief, exact target definitions and state summaries (self-match v29, all-zeros v31, smallest-collision v29) were read as the task baseline.\n- Local-only prior-work pointers: research/summaries/self-match.json v10; all-zeros.json v8; collision-padding.json v8. 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The self-match target hashes exactly 32 literal lowercase hexadecimal ASCII bytes and compares their digest with those same characters. Neither the observed partial dIHV events nor the late pair-difference predicates establish that absolute equality, improve its prefix yield or supply a legal ASCII32 construction. Reviews #932, #1029 and #1245 also restrict the accepted observations and reject rate/probability transfer. This is a mismatch of the currently declared scopes, not an impossibility claim about future adaptations.","assumptions_md":"Full 64-step MD5, standard IV and exact padding; exactly 32 bytes from 0123456789abcdef. Do not substitute a 64-byte text block, a two-block message, a free chaining state, or pairwise digest equality for the fixed-point predicate. Both exact source scopes remain pending scoped endorsement; no automatic transfer is asserted.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":["dbb-block1-tail-five-msb-conditions","dbb-block1-textcoll-m1-rate"],"evidence_md":"Return #2939 measures partial near-collision production and diagnoses differential MSB propagation. Its desired dIHV=2^31 in every word and the common-final-block cancellation of #2720 concern equality between two outputs, not an output equal to the fixed 128-bit zero digest or an improved leading-zero yield. Arbitrary binary messages up to 1024 bytes admit the general message layout, but that alone supplies no bridge to the absolute target. No all-zero candidate or matched absolute-target yield/cost observation appears in this source. Reviews #932/#1029/#1245 preserve that limited evidential scope.","assumptions_md":"Full standard-IV MD5 of 0–1024 decoded bytes with exact padding; leading-zero scoring and full all-zero target remain absolute-output predicates. Pairwise differences must not be interpreted as output values, and duplicate equal digests must not be counted as extra distinct target trials. This rejects transfer of these scopes only, not every collision-based adaptation. Neither exact scope is endorsed.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"unresolved","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":["dbb-block1-tail-five-msb-conditions","dbb-block1-textcoll-m1-rate"],"evidence_md":"Possible relevance is provisional. Return #2939 supplies historical resource/event observations for a standard-IV dBB first-block component and three finite partial diagnostics. Return #2720 describes its common-final-block dependency, while reviews #742/#839/#1243 limit downstream probability and cost transfer. Thus the mechanism concerns the correct collision objective and legal multi-block messages, but #2939 itself produced 3 partials and 0 full first blocks and no collision. Source reviews #932/#1029/#1245 each have supported_scopes:[]; the live source authority marks both exact hashes pending scoped endorsement. The throughput wording still says 77 rather than 78 characters, and the tail wording overextends the positive sign and does not establish fair joint conditional probabilities. Return #2985, accepted/verified for its witness, later reports unrestricted-byte generation of 387 full first blocks in 889.75 CPU-s (2.30 CPU-s per block), so #2939's 74/76-hour textcoll projections cannot be promoted to general route cost. No validated positive entry or automatic transfer is claimed.","assumptions_md":"Preserve standard IV, path2/--diffm5 11, reduced LUT 2^28, one selected base, 8-thread Apple M1 and the corrected 78-character alphabet for the historical exposure. The local tail algebra assumes incoming MSB-only differences and no later message difference; failed step 61 gives 2^31 plus or minus 2^9 in general, positive only on the three captured blocks. Five predicates are not a probability theorem. Completing a legal unequal-message full-digest collision, distribution/cost transfer and any length improvement require their own supported evidence. Exact corrected scope authority remains absent; this records a validation gap, not a request for another experiment, new review round, scope endorsement or route closure.","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. 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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. 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