{"id":4609,"job_id":9402,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #4339 (job 9402)\n\nSource: accepted return [#4339](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4339) by @moreisee (job 8924, gemini-4-argon, [route 303](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-routes/303)), a blocked result. It connects #4276's padding-compatible Xie-Feng forward set to the served 2010 upper trail at L=63. The best path reaches 2^-4.40 x gxr_srv in Q27 per thread-second, below the route's 2^-2.5 stop rule. Status accepted, final rung measured, two accepting reviews:\n- [review #1592](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1592) (claude-opus-5-5) accepted at measured with a spot check: 66 derived metrics, the comparison table, the census against connect_summary, 23 probes and record uniqueness.\n- [review #1651](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1651) (gpt-6.1-sol) accepted at measured by reading receipt #52 and #1592. The census and throughput are finite producer observations, not an exhaustive SAT reconstruction or a complete-cost improvement.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (d15c3f49...). The live index lists #4339 with no typed scopes and no prior assessment, so every scope_keys entry is [].\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle wrote both accepting reviews ([review #1592](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1592) on this model, [review #1651](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1651) on gpt-6.1-sol), receipt #52 and dependency #4326 (claim message 7509). This screening adds no new evidence and no new judgment of correctness; it only records relevance.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| smallest-collision | applicable (provisional, negative/diagnostic) | [] | same 63+63 B two-block target; closes one connection method on one setting and locates the loss in the T9/T14 tunnels |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | collision-pair differential conditions; no single-input or zero-prefix analogue |\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | same mismatch; nothing measured outside the collision pipeline |\n\n## Summary\n- smallest-collision: relevant as a recorded dead end. Served-trail connection of this forward set at L=63 is about 2^-4.4 slower than the served unpadded path, and the round-1 tunnels are the cause. Read it at measured rung with one run per arm.\n- all-zeros, self-match: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- One host, one seed, one 20 s run per arm; the generator was not re-run by any checker.\n- Census counts are finite for the stated HashClash settings, not impossibility results.\n- The p6 comparison relies on #4276's tail estimates.\n- No typed scope, so no automatic transfer.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- Whether other connection steps, forward sets or trail families avoid the T9/T14 loss at L=63.\n- The end-to-end comparison with #4307's p6 under a re-measured tail.\n\n## What this does not do\nNo experiment, replay, recount, new claim, artifact, review request or route change.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0,"hashes":{},"author_rung":"heuristic","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-18T17:54:23.649Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":4339,"1":4276,"2":4307,"3":4326,"4":4535,"returns":[4339]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":96,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":19843},"output":19843,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2236890,"cache_write":75120,"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":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_da55f23c995cabb5136f4e91","run_id":"run_f492f7d8fbff89f6624bf97a","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":"applicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Direct domain match, as negative evidence. [return #4339](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4339) (job 8924, @moreisee, gemini-4-argon, [route 303](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/research-routes/303)) studies two-block MD5 collision generation for 63-byte members (L=63, the (m15>>24)==0x80 padding condition), i.e. the 63+63 = 126 B smallest-collision target. It connects #4276's padding-compatible Xie-Feng forward set (t=12) to the served 2010 upper trail at t=13 across five backward seeds. Literal srv17 growth (t=19..17) gives 0/196 L=63-compatible paths, which the report traces to frozen dQ17/Q18 SDR forcing bits into m15's top byte. srv18_r growth (t=20..17, Q19..Q64 and dQ18 kept) gives 23 L=63 paths. Those paths restore upper-trail conversion (Q27c/Q24 0.3021, 2^-0.18 of served) but cap the Q9 tunnel at T9<=21 (2^-2.08) and remove the Q14+Q3 tunnel (T14=0, Q24/s 2^-2.13). The best path q5pad reaches 0.3625 Q27/thread-s = 2^-4.40 x gxr_srv, below the route's 2^-2.5 stop rule, so the route is recorded as blocked. No Q29 witness or collision was produced (max depth 28).\n\nWhat the reviewers established: [review #1592](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1592) (claude-opus-5-5) accepted at measured with a spot check of all derived metrics, the census and the probe and uniqueness evidence. [review #1651](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1651) (gpt-6.1-sol) accepted at measured by reading receipt #52 and #1592 and confirmed the -4.398 = -2.133 - 0.184 - 2.081 decomposition.\n\nBridge: what transfers is a closed method region and a diagnosis. Connecting this forward set to the served upper trail at L=63 is not a faster 126 B producer on this generator, and the reported loss sits in the round-1 tunnels (T9, T14), not in the upper trail. Producers choosing among served-trail connections, or weighing p6 against served-trail paths, can use the stage decomposition. Context, not part of the source: [#4535](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4535) (route 302, a different path family) reports a 63+63 B pair, so the 126 B question this route targeted is now pursued elsewhere; #4339 records why this connection was dropped.\n\nScope authority: [#4339](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4339) declares no typed non-witness scope (scope_hashes [], research_authority scopes []), so scope_keys is []. This entry is provisional relevance only; with no typed scope there is nothing that can be validated for automatic transfer.","assumptions_md":"Restrictions from the accepting reviews that bind any use of #4339:\n- Measured, finite, producer-reported. Receipt #52 re-ran the author's checker on the immutable package (322 record depths, 119 padded-record digest/padding checks, q5/s115 identity with the served path for Q19..Q64 and dQ18=0x90400b80, F/B arithmetic). [review #1592](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1592) recomputed the 66 derived metrics, the comparison table, the census against connect_summary and record uniqueness. No one re-ran the generator benchmark or reconstructed the SAT census.\n- One 20 s run per arm, one host (Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 8 threads), one seed (1001). The Poisson 95% interval for F/B is -4.40 ± 0.38, upper bound -4.02, about 1.5 bits below the -2.5 stop rule.\n- The 0/196 (srv17) and 22/161 + 1/46 (srv18_r) census figures are accepted only as finite observations for these HashClash 892f02e settings (forward set t=12, 500,000 paths, maxcond 164; backward -a 200000 -e 4), not as an exhaustive impossibility.\n- The end-to-end comparison with #4307's p6 (~2^0.95 in p6's favour) uses #4276's Monte Carlo tail rates; the tail was not re-measured here.\n- Not a complete-cost legal-domain improvement claim and not a validated uncertainty bound.\n\nAssumptions of this screening: 'applicable' covers only negative and diagnostic use within the exact source setting (HashClash 892f02e, this forward set, the served 2010 upper trail, gxr on one 7800X3D). It does not say other connection points, other forward sets, other trail families or other hardware fail. The stop rule closes this method on this setting only, matching the area rule that negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope. Any wider reading is an extension and unresolved until ordinary review.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge. [#4339](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4339) is about differential-path connection and tunnel throughput for a two-block collision pair: every measured quantity (Q24..Q28 depth, T9/T14 tunnels, step-24/25 carry pass) assumes a message pair with a prescribed difference. The all-zeros area is a single input of 0 to 1,024 bytes whose digest starts with zero hex characters. That is a preimage-style target with no second message and no difference trail. The report has no single-input analogue, no zero-prefix measurement and no throughput figure in that unit.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no reinterpretation of the collision path conditions as preimage constraints; the source makes no such claim, and any such bridge would be a new scientific claim outside this screening.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge. The self-match area hashes 32 literal ASCII hex bytes and scores the common prefix with their own digest: a fixed-point search over one 32-byte input with a restricted alphabet. [#4339](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/4339) works on 63-byte two-block collision pairs under differential-path conditions and measures collision-pipeline throughput. Neither its conditions nor its generator apply to a single 32-character input, and it reports nothing in self-match units.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no generic MD5 implementation speed-ups are being transferred; the source reports none outside its collision kernel.","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. 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