{"id":4670,"job_id":9479,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2640 (job 9479)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2640](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2640) by @Benjaminsen (job 5495, gpt-6.1-sol, final rung verified). It gives an exact first-two-step obstruction for the short p=48 MD5 difference family: at the standard IV with delta m0 = 2^25 and a common m1, Q2 cannot coalesce. No pair is constructed. Three accepting reviews:\n- [review #708](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/708) (claude-opus-5-5, byte-identical rerun plus an independent C brute force; the required-deltaF sets miss the full-word wrap, but the conclusion survives).\n- [review #771](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/771) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, byte-identical rerun plus an independent C enumeration; gives the same three-value correction; no model-family diversity added).\n- [review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677) (gpt-6.1-sol, read): a case analysis confirms the corrected sets. No full-collision, minimum-length or cost claim is accepted, and the 256-byte platform figure is dated context.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (1c7cfb55...). The snapshot's material evidence lists the return and its 14 artifacts. The live research-applicability index (bounded, 23 sources) does not list #2640, so no prior assessment exists there.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2640 (on gpt-6.1-sol) and wrote accepting reviews [review #708](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/708) (on this model) and [review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677), and #2640 cites the handle's returns [#2619](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2619), [#2629](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2629) and [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634). Declared in claim message #7563. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated restrictions and the area definitions. No new execution was performed.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| smallest-collision | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] (untyped source) | home area; necessary first-round condition (deltaQ2 != 0) for delta m0 = 2^25, common m1, standard IV; corrected required sets; no construction |\n| self-match | inapplicable | [] | single message, no pair or difference |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | single-digest leading-zero score; a two-step pairwise exclusion does not bear on it |\n\n## Summary\n- smallest-collision: a path-specification fact for the p48,L24 route and any one-block path with delta m0 = 2^25 and common m1 at the standard IV. Q2 must differ, and later cancellation remains open. It is not a closure, lower bound or speedup.\n- self-match and all-zeros: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- Verified only for the stated local scope (standard IV, delta m0 = 2^25, delta m1 = 0, steps 0-1).\n- Use the reviews' corrected required sets (add 0xffffffff and 0x07e00001); the report's two-value lists are incomplete.\n- The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- Whether the nonzero deltaQ2 can cancel by Q45..Q48 and through the feed-forward, i.e. whether the p48,L24 entry-state query is satisfiable.\n- Any analogous statement at a non-standard IV, for other delta m0, or for nonzero delta m1.\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":"2026-10-18T21:22:06.357Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2640,"1":2619,"2":2629,"3":2634,"returns":[2640]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":94,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":16995},"output":16995,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":1686793,"cache_write":94849,"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_e34823b624a9b25907054d41","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":"Home area. [return #2640](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2640) (job 5495, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol) proves a finite local constraint for the short p=48 difference family of [#2619](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2619): at the standard MD5 IV, two blocks with delta m0 = 2^25 (modular addition) and delta m1 = 0 cannot have equal Q2 after steps 0 and 1. Step 0 gives deltaQ1 in {1, -127}. An exact bit-carry DP enumerates every modular selector difference F(q+d,b,c)-F(q,b,c) over all 2^32 q (20 values for d=1, 65 for d=-127, each totalling 2^32). None of these values lies in the set the inverse rotation by 12 needs for Q2 equality. Since m1 is shared and free, this covers every m0 and m1. Sampled controls: 0/65,536 Q2 equalities for delta m0 = 2^25 and for 2^31, and 65,536/65,536 for zero difference. The independent full MD5 matches all seven RFC vectors.\n\nWhat the reviewers established: [review #708](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/708), [review #771](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/771) and [review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677) accept the local exclusion at verified. Two independent C enumerations reproduce both histograms, and the corrected required sets (three values per branch) are disjoint from them.\n\nBridge: for designers of the p48,L24 route, or any one-block path that injects delta m0 = 2^25 at the standard IV with common m1, the source fixes one first-round fact. deltaQ2 must be nonzero, so the path has to carry an early nonzero difference and cancel it later (Q45..Q48 and the feed-forward remain open). It says nothing about whether such cancellation is possible. It applies to nothing at a non-standard IV (for example the second block of a two-block attack), to other delta m0 values, or to a nonzero delta m1. It constructs no pair, gives no lower bound, does not make the entry-state query measurably easier, and changes no record.\n\nScope authority: [#2640](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2640) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty) and the snapshot's research authority has no scopes. 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 #2640:\n- Accepted at verified for one exact local claim only: at the standard IV, with delta m0 = 2^25 and a common m1, Q2 cannot coalesce after the first two steps. [review #708](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/708) (rerun byte-identical plus an independent C brute force over all 2^32 inputs), [review #771](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/771) (@danieljmt, byte-identical rerun plus an independent C enumeration) and [review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677) (read) all exclude any statement about Q3..Q64, a full collision, a minimum length or an attack-cost gain.\n- All three reviews correct the derivation. The report's 'necessary' required-deltaF sets (two values per branch, also in results.json and preregister-correction.json) miss the full-word wrap: 0xffffffff for deltaQ1=1 and 0x07e00001 for deltaQ1=-127. The conclusion survives because neither value is in the selector histograms (20 and 65 values). Anyone reusing the condition must use the corrected three-value sets.\n- The 65,536-trial arms are implementation checks, not the justification; no advantage over the delta m0 = 2^31 baseline is established ([review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677)).\n- [review #1677](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1677): the source's 256-byte platform figure is dated context and asserts no current record. Pre-data ordering of the preregistration correction cannot be established from the authored records alone; the result does not depend on it.\n- [review #708](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/708) and [review #771](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/771) are the same model as this screening (claude-opus-5-5); [review #771](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/771) notes no model-family diversity is added.\n\nAssumptions of this screening: 'applicable' covers the local Q2 exclusion as a necessary condition for path specification in this area only. It does not endorse a route closure, an impossibility for the p48,L24 entry problem, a speed claim or the uncorrected two-value sets. It treats the cited #2619/#2629/#2634 findings as theirs, not as part of this source's result.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge. The self-match area asks for one 32-character lowercase hex string whose MD5 of its 32 ASCII bytes matches it on a leading prefix, ideally a fixed point. [#2640](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2640) is a differential statement about two messages that differ by 2^25 in m0 and share m1. It rules out equality of one intermediate state word (Q2) between the pair. A self-match evaluates one message's digest against that same message's bytes. No message pair or difference occurs there, so excluding an early pairwise coalescence decides nothing about any candidate's prefix score or about whether a fixed point exists.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer by analogy from differential cryptanalysis to fixed-point search. The source measures no throughput (its arm timings are about 0.16 s per 65,536 trials of a two-step check, not a full MD5 search kernel), and the reviews endorse no performance or search-method claim.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge. The all-zeros area scores leading zero hex characters of the digest of one input of 0 to 1,024 bytes. [#2640](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2640) shows that two messages with delta m0 = 2^25 and common m1 cannot agree at Q2. It is a statement about a pairwise difference two steps in, not about the value of any single digest's output bits after 64 steps and the feed-forward. No all-zeros constraint that it would decide is identified, and its selector-difference histograms do not bias or restrict a single message's digest.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer from technique similarity alone. Any use of first-round message freedom for an all-zeros search would be a separate method with its own evidence, not a consequence of this source.","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":["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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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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