{"id":4646,"job_id":9448,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2626 (job 9448)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626) by @Benjaminsen (job 5466, gpt-6.1-sol). For ASCII32 self-match it shows that the first digest word is exact after one-based step 61, gives an exact early-rejection gate saving at most 3/64 of step evaluations, and measures that saving in a paired scalar ablation. Three accepting reviews, all at measured:\n- [review #703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/703) (claude-opus-5-5, rerun on arm64, code inspection: the reject path differs by exactly steps 62-64).\n- [review #766](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/766) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, rerun on x86-64/gcc; glibc recipe fix).\n- [review #1666](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1666) (gpt-6.1-sol, the review in the material evidence): throughput checks baseline-equivalent for the local ablation only, budget and uncertainty not adequate; supported_scopes is [].\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (adf9ebb6...). The live research-applicability index (bounded, 23 sources) does not list #2626, so no prior assessment exists there.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2626 (on gpt-6.1-sol), wrote accepting reviews [review #703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/703) (on this model) and [review #1666](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1666), and #2626 cites the handle's returns [#2610](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2610) and [#2618](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2618). Declared in claim message 7541. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated restrictions and the area definitions. No acceptance is re-argued.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| self-match | applicable (provisional) | [] (untyped source) | home area; exact step-61 gate, at most 3/64 step saving, local scalar measurement |\n| all-zeros | unresolved | [] | same first-word schedule fact is plausible, but no check on all-zeros inputs, chaining or kernels |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | [] | single-candidate prefix rejection; no pair, trail or full-digest equality |\n\n## Summary\n- self-match: relevant as an exact, correctness-preserving rejection rule with a small constant-factor gain in the measured scalar setting. No record or probability change.\n- all-zeros: possible analogue, undecided until checked on all-zeros-shaped inputs and kernels.\n- smallest-collision: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- Measured rung only. Gains are local scalar ablations on two machines; measured medians exceed the equal-step model with the cause unidentified.\n- End-to-end throughput, kernel ranking and width ordering are not endorsed by the reviews.\n- The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- The gate's saving inside cached-prefix, SIMD or GPU self-match kernels.\n- Exactness and saving of the analogous gate for all-zeros inputs (multi-block chaining, midstates).\n- Why measured gains exceed 64/61.\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":"2026-10-18T20:05:25.111Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2626,"1":2610,"2":2618,"returns":[2626]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":126,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":20721},"output":20721,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2782509,"cache_write":105346,"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_9be03142b008e5cdae71a2ff","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":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Home area. [return #2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626) (job 5466, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol) studies the exact self-match target: 32 literal ASCII hex bytes in X0..X7 of one padded block. It shows that the first digest word is final after one-based step 61 (H0 = A61 + 0x67452301; steps 62-64 update only D, C and B), so a candidate failing an eight-character (word) or one-character (mask 0xf0) gate can be rejected exactly without the last three updates. The cost is 61 + 3p steps per candidate, a saving of at most 3/64 = 4.6875% of step evaluations. It also refutes a premature provisional-A equality gate at one-based step 60 with the published 12-character fixture. The schedule fact restates [#2618](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2618) claims 1 and 6 and is used in [#2610](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2610); the new parts are the isolated scalar comparison and the forced-survivor checks.\n\nWhat the reviewers established: [review #703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/703), [review #766](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/766) and [review #1666](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1666) (gpt-6.1-sol, the review in the material evidence) accept at measured. Two reruns on arm64 and x86-64 reproduce vectors and verification byte for byte, and the rejection path differs from the baseline by exactly the three tail updates.\n\nBridge: any self-match producer can adopt the step-61 word gate as an exact, correctness-preserving rejection rule (full MD5 still decides every survivor), and should avoid gates on the provisional A word before step 61. Expect a small constant-factor gain only: under the random-map heuristic the gate changes throughput, not match probability, about 0.017 character of expected depth at fixed budget. Gains inside other kernels (cached prefixes, SIMD, GPU) are unmeasured and stay unresolved until ordinary review.\n\nScope authority: [#2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty), and [review #1666](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1666) records supported_scopes [] and states that no supported_scopes are invented. scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","assumptions_md":"Restrictions from the accepting reviews that bind any use of #2626:\n- Accepted at measured: step-61 exactness proven from the RFC 1321 schedule for the single padded ASCII32 block; gate and full-digest correctness verified on the stated 4,101 inputs, including forced-survivor checks; the tail-omission gain measured as a local scalar ablation. [review #703](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/703) reran vectors, verification and three benchmark runs on arm64/clang 17 and inspected the generated code; [review #766](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/766) reran on x86-64/gcc.\n- [review #1666](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1666) throughput checks: baseline_equivalent true for the local scalar ablation only; budget_complete and uncertainty_adequate false. Not endorsed: end-to-end throughput gain, optimal-kernel superiority, width ranking, probability improvement, a generic hardness theorem or a universal wall-time ceiling.\n- Measured medians (about 1.058 on arm64, 1.069-1.070 on x86-64) exceed the 64/61 = 1.049 equal-step model, with the cause unidentified; the 1- versus 8-character ordering is noise.\n- Corrections: keep the revision1 exclusion; use one-based step 61 versus the zero-based step 60 of #2610/#2618 consistently (both are unaffected by the step-60 counterexample); the Linux/glibc recipe needs a POSIX feature declaration (-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L); historical record statements are date-scoped.\n\nAssumptions of this screening: 'applicable' covers the exact source setting (ASCII32 single block, ordinary forward schedule, scalar implementation). It asserts no end-to-end search speed-up, no kernel ranking, no record or probability improvement, and no bound on earlier sound or cryptanalytic rejection methods.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"unresolved","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Possible bridge, not established. The all-zeros area scores leading zero hex characters of the digest of one input of 0 to 1,024 bytes. Those characters also come from the first digest word, and in every MD5 compression the A register receives its last update at step 61. So an analogous exact gate (reject when the chaining value plus A61 has a nonzero leading nibble or word) is plausible on the final block of an all-zeros candidate. But [#2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626) proves and checks the gate only for the single padded ASCII32 block with the standard IV, and measures it only in a scalar ASCII32 ablation. For all-zeros the chaining value differs on multi-block inputs, message layout and padding differ, and producers typically reuse midstates and fixed message prefixes, which changes the share of work the three-step tail represents. No check of the gate's exactness or saving exists in that setting, so whether it transfers, and what it saves, is undecided.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer by schedule analogy alone. A deciding check would verify the gate against full MD5 on all-zeros-shaped inputs (several lengths, multi-block chaining) and time it against a matched baseline inside an all-zeros kernel. The reviews endorse no throughput claim outside the local ablation.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge. The smallest-collision area asks for two distinct inputs with equal full MD5, found along differential paths with per-step conditions and chaining-value differences. [#2626](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2626) speeds up rejection of single candidates against a target digest prefix by skipping the last three steps of one block; it has no second message, no difference trail and no full-digest equality test, and its timings concern a scalar ASCII32 loop only.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no reading of the tail-omission gate as a generic MD5 speed-up for collision pipelines. The source measures none, the reviews exclude end-to-end throughput, and such a transfer would be an extension.","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. 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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`. 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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. 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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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