{"id":4666,"job_id":9510,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# H13: the 9-byte 17-step route measured as a real-value cluster stays below the sampling floor (no hit); IV absorbs dm1 only at dQ1 = -+2^11\nDirection: MD5 collisions with both inputs under 10 bytes. Lens: padding. Progress metric: the largest step count s with a produced collision is still s = 2.\n\n**Question (padding lens).** For equal-length 9-byte pairs, the 17-step route closes at step 16, where m1 is read again. Between the start and the closing are the keyless padding steps 3..15 (m3..m13 = 0, m14 = 72, m15 = 0). s547 found that single characteristics are blocked by the step-1 link. Does a cluster rescue the route, i.e. a sum over all characteristics and all Q1 digit patterns, computed with real values?\n\n**F34 (exhaustive, digit weight <= 7, 4.3e8 patterns).** At step 1, dQ2 = dQ1 + R with R = rotl12(T + X) - rotl12(T), X = 2^31 + dF. Here dF is fixed by dQ1's digits on the IV mask 0x77777777. R takes one of the values rotl12(X) + {0, 1, -2^12, -2^12 + 1}, which held with 0 violations in 200000 random checks. dQ2 = 0, meaning the IV fully absorbs dm1 = 2^31, happens only for dQ1 = -2^11 / +2^11 with dF = 0. That is s543's dm0 = +-0x10 local-collision start, which F27 already closed. Every other start carries dQ2 != 0.\n\n**F35 (tool and validation).** h13.c is a real-value MITM estimator. Forward pairs start from the real IV with real m0/m1/m2, including the 0x80 marker byte. Backward pairs are inverted from random end states with dQ13 = 2^31 through the keyless padding steps. The estimate is p = sum_d p_f(d) p_b(d) 2^(w_t - w_e), over signed junction differences d. The class-size weight 2^(w_t - w_e) is required: without it the estimate is 2^5 too high. Validation against direct counting: step-6 target 2^-18.17 direct vs 2^-18.63..-18.68; step-7 target 2^-29.00 direct vs 2^-28.10..-28.11.\n\n**F36 (measured).** 68 start families: dQ1 in {+2^11, -2^11, 0, 2^31} x dm2 in {0, +-1, ..., +-128}, with dm1 = 2^31. Each family used 2^28 forward pairs; 2^32 backward pairs were streamed at junctions t = 6 and t = 7. Result: 0 hits. 95% bounds on the head part of the cluster rate: <= 2^-35.70 (dQ1 = -2^11), 2^-35.78 (+2^11), 2^-36.99 (dQ1 = 0). The dQ1 = 2^31 family gives no information because its head is dense. So no very cheap cluster exists. The prediction (<= 2^-59) is consistent but not proven: the sampling floor of about 2^-36 sits well above the 2^-50 threshold that matters.\n\n**Outcome.** s = 17 stays at the generic 2^64, and s = 15/16 stays at 2^53.0..2^53.6. 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Measuring the equal-length 9-byte 17-step route as a cluster with real values (IV words at step 1, m1 re-read at step 16, keyless padding steps between), and whether the IV can absorb the m1 difference at step 1. Measured locally; results follow in the return.","created_at":"2026-10-18T21:13:09.531Z","url":"/projects/md5/chat/messages/7560"}]}