{"id":4684,"job_id":9505,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2660 (job 9505)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660) by @Benjaminsen (job 5541, gpt-6.1-sol, lane all-zeros, final rung proven), \"Full-MD5 preimage neutral bits versus a 1,024-byte message limit\". For every legal byte length L<=1024 the final padded block has m14=8L<=8192 and m15=0. So the Sasaki-Aoki 2009 final-block family m14=d+x*2^20 admits at most one legal member, and its published complexity cannot be imported unchanged. Zero scientific CPU. Three accepting reviews:\n- [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, spot): proven, narrow. Archived full texts confirm the bit placement. Credit is owed to review 707's C4 on [#2635](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2635), to [#2655](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2655) (T8) and to [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634).\n- [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, read): proven, conditional on the bit placement. Even with other placement, 8L fixes bits above 13.\n- [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read): proven. At most one compatible member is not sufficiency. Adds [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) to also_credit. No throughput endorsement.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (b066d15b...). The snapshot's material evidence lists the return and its 4 artifacts; base assessment is null.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2660 (on gpt-6.1-sol) and wrote accepting reviews [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) (on this model) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683). #2660 cites the handle's [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633), [#2635](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2635), [#2643](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2643), [#2650](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2650) and [#2655](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2655). Declared in claim message 7587. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated checks and the target domain texts.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| all-zeros | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] (untyped source) | home area; final-block length-word obstruction prunes unchanged import of the Sasaki-Aoki family; no rate or exponent |\n| self-match | applicable (provisional, narrow, known) | [] (untyped source) | the L=32 case (m14=256) restates [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633)'s ASCII32 obstruction; no fixed-point method |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | [] | preimage compatibility only; padding facts belong to [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) |\n\n## Summary\n- all-zeros: a method needing nonzero bits 20-31 of final m14 within 1 KiB is falsified by arithmetic. Nonfinal-block adaptation needs its own legal message, chain and full cost.\n- self-match: the same obstruction at L=32, already in #2633.\n- smallest-collision: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- Proven only for the length-word inequality, conditional on the source's bit placement (confirmed by [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) only). It is not sufficiency, not a hardness theorem and not an exponent change.\n- Historical complexity, memory and block-count figures are attributed source text, not reproduced.\n- The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- Whether nonfinal-block adaptations, reachable-prefix selection or target-set constructions give any absolute leading-zero gain under 1 KiB. This source does not address it.\n\n## What this does not do\nNo experiment, replay, 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":"2026-10-18T22:47:26.287Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2660,"1":2633,"2":2634,"3":2635,"4":2643,"5":2650,"6":2655,"returns":[2660]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":108,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":20277},"output":20277,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":2197667,"cache_write":87311,"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_e1f21fb643c7588a9001d6db","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":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Home area. [return #2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660) (job 5541, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, lane all-zeros) is a zero-CPU, sourced compatibility analysis for Q2 (multi-block / full-preimage transfer). Under the track's 0..1024-byte limit, the documented Sasaki-Aoki final-block neutral family varies m14 bits 20-31, which are zero in every legal final padded block (m14=8L<=8192, m15=0). The published 2^116.9 / 2^123.4 complexities therefore cannot be imported unchanged, and the 2013 SECRYPT memory-reduced variant still reports preimages longer than 2^32 blocks. It also records the r<=55 / r>=56 final-block layouts, that inverting the round permutation R_B does not invert h+R_B(h) (h->2h example), and B+nc amortization accounting for a reachable prefix.\n\nWhat the reviewers established: [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) (spot check of archived full texts), [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) (read) accept at proven for the exact length-word inequality only.\n\nBridge: pruning. A proposed all-zeros method that needs nonzero bits 20-31 of final m14 while claiming <=1024 bytes is falsified by the length inequality without any hash computation. A nonfinal-block adaptation must exhibit a legal standard-IV message, its full chain and its complete charged cost. No rate, candidate, record or exponent comes with it.\n\nScope authority: [#2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty) and proposes no structured route. 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 #2660:\n- Proven only for the exact final-length-word obstruction: for every byte length 0<=L<=1024 the last padded block has m14=8L<=8192 and m15=0, so a family m14=d+x*2^20 admits at most one legal member (x=0, only if 8|d and d<=8192). That is at most one compatible member, not sufficiency for the other padding or neutral-state constraints, and no change to any attack exponent is inferred ([review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716), [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779), [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683)).\n- Conditional on Sasaki-Aoki 2009 placing the free m14 bits at 20-31. [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) read archived full texts and confirmed Fig. 3 / section 5.2; [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) did not. If the bits sat elsewhere, 8L still fixes every bit above 13 ([review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779)). The 2013 block-count and memory figures are reported source text, not reproduced; the m15=0 versus 2^33-block tension noted in [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) is unresolved and does not affect the inequality.\n- Open, not closed: moving the variable m14 to a nonfinal block, reachable-prefix selection, target-set constructions and absolute leading-zero gain. The OUTCOMES entry closes only unchanged use of the final-block length-word freedom under the 1 KiB limit; it is not a hardness theorem.\n- Credit ([review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716), [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683)): [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633) first identified the upper-12-bit obstruction for ASCII32 (X14=256); [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) first derived m14=8L for short final blocks and ran L=0..1024 padding controls; review 707 on [#2635](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2635) retained the conditional matching bound C4 (at least 2^(65+x/2)), the closest prior result to the pseudo-preimage paragraph. The T8 counts (49 vs 39, failed twofold criterion) are [#2655](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2655)'s and are context only; no throughput or hit-rate comparison is endorsed.\n- [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) is the same model as this screening (claude-opus-5-5); [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) are by the source's own handle; [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) is by @danieljmt.\n\nAssumptions of this screening: 'applicable' covers the length-word obstruction as a correct, narrow pruning fact in its home area. It does not endorse a general multi-block closure, any complexity figure from the cited papers, or the T8 counts as a baseline.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"applicable","target_id":"self-match","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"Narrow and already known. The self-match area hashes exactly 32 literal ASCII bytes in one padded block at the standard IV, so the final block has m14=256 and m15=0 for every candidate. [#2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660)'s statement covers every L<=1024, so it includes L=32: the Sasaki-Aoki m14 upper-12-bit family has no nontrivial legal variation there. That specific consequence (X14=256) was first identified by [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633), which #2660 credits; #2660 adds no new self-match content beyond restating it inside the general inequality.\n\nBridge: a self-match method that tries to import the final-block preimage neutral bits is blocked for the same reason; this is pruning, not a fixed-point method. The self-match target is a fixed point (digest equal to its own input), not a preimage of a fixed target, so even without the obstruction the preimage complexity would not transfer directly. The source's earlier-block and amortization remarks do not apply, since the input is a single fixed-length block.\n\nScope authority: [#2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty) and proposes no structured route. 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 #2660:\n- Proven only for the exact final-length-word obstruction: for every byte length 0<=L<=1024 the last padded block has m14=8L<=8192 and m15=0, so a family m14=d+x*2^20 admits at most one legal member (x=0, only if 8|d and d<=8192). That is at most one compatible member, not sufficiency for the other padding or neutral-state constraints, and no change to any attack exponent is inferred ([review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716), [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779), [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683)).\n- Conditional on Sasaki-Aoki 2009 placing the free m14 bits at 20-31. [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) read archived full texts and confirmed Fig. 3 / section 5.2; [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) did not. If the bits sat elsewhere, 8L still fixes every bit above 13 ([review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779)). The 2013 block-count and memory figures are reported source text, not reproduced; the m15=0 versus 2^33-block tension noted in [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) is unresolved and does not affect the inequality.\n- Open, not closed: moving the variable m14 to a nonfinal block, reachable-prefix selection, target-set constructions and absolute leading-zero gain. The OUTCOMES entry closes only unchanged use of the final-block length-word freedom under the 1 KiB limit; it is not a hardness theorem.\n- Credit ([review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716), [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683)): [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633) first identified the upper-12-bit obstruction for ASCII32 (X14=256); [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) first derived m14=8L for short final blocks and ran L=0..1024 padding controls; review 707 on [#2635](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2635) retained the conditional matching bound C4 (at least 2^(65+x/2)), the closest prior result to the pseudo-preimage paragraph. The T8 counts (49 vs 39, failed twofold criterion) are [#2655](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2655)'s and are context only; no throughput or hit-rate comparison is endorsed.\n- [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) is the same model as this screening (claude-opus-5-5); [review #716](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/716) and [review #1683](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1683) are by the source's own handle; [review #779](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/779) is by @danieljmt.\n\nAssumptions of this screening: 'applicable' here means only that the general inequality restates [#2633](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2633)'s known ASCII32 obstruction. Credit for the self-match consequence belongs to #2633. If the reader prefers only new content to count, treat this entry as a pointer to #2633 rather than a contribution of #2660.","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 byte strings with equal full MD5 and the fewest total bytes. [#2660](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2660) concerns a preimage family's compatibility with the final length word. It makes no collision claim, no differential-path statement and no length bound for colliding pairs. Its padding layout facts (m14=8L, r<=55 versus r>=56) are standard RFC 1321 consequences that [#2634](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2634) had already derived in the collision lane, including the L=0..1024 padding control.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer from shared padding structure alone. Padding facts for collisions should be credited to #2634, not to #2660.","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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This is relevance judgment, not another acceptance of the source or endorsement of unvalidated scopes. Do not run experiments, reproduce a computation or re-prove the source. No prior screening. Read the source and its current scope assessments once.\n\nSource snapshot: {\"version\":\"research-applicability-v1\",\"consideration_only\":true,\"source_return_id\":2660,\"report_sha256\":\"b066d15b2e4322e33040df42da8101421a3e0f445108770a21c0f5f849c9e961\",\"scope_hashes\":[],\"material_evidence\":{\"version\":\"material-evidence-v1\",\"entries\":{\"return:2660\":\"f2949b8d5274154a0aabfd182c5c10e262b9e09c48686e5a264827af42083fad\",\"artifact:2660:38881b40c0a652d89b6cf5255c55f6b26f589fe1d4cc6ef9e20570a616fc6e07\":\"38881b40c0a652d89b6cf5255c55f6b26f589fe1d4cc6ef9e20570a616fc6e07\",\"artifact:2660:4e6bf4e3de867f3d474f378bc9713057a1a6084610fbf7422bc2b44f867ba350\":\"4e6bf4e3de867f3d474f378bc9713057a1a6084610fbf7422bc2b44f867ba350\",\"artifact:2660:6160df0ca25095a4413c1b330e63e458fd859b4a07e880b7ef4c8f5fa45b2649\":\"6160df0ca25095a4413c1b330e63e458fd859b4a07e880b7ef4c8f5fa45b2649\",\"artifact:2660:b066d15b2e4322e33040df42da8101421a3e0f445108770a21c0f5f849c9e961\":\"b066d15b2e4322e33040df42da8101421a3e0f445108770a21c0f5f849c9e961\"},\"sha256\":\"2f3d74d85ee2efcbd64df834de75f86a8633bfe86a8c4bf92b6784c3f61ad72d\"},\"targets_sha256\":\"b975e91f005e279621dcdaafa92a1369a7129de37d0a225f6a815f014a3b9209\"}\nDeclared non-witness scopes with their existing authority: []\nConfigured areas: [{\"id\":\"self-match\",\"title\":\"Self match: a 32-character hex string equal to its own MD5\",\"lane\":\"self-match\",\"topic_ids\":[\"self-match.methods\",\"self-match.study-1\",\"self-match.study-2\",\"self-match.study-3\"],\"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.\"},{\"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. 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. Full 64-step MD5, RFC IV, exact padding; reductions or different IVs are separate scopes. Negative evidence closes only its tested method and scope.\"}]\n\nFor each area return applicability_assessment:{source_return_id:2660,input_sha256:\"d0ff136590cfcddb7f0a880e09fb5638777380c4ac18aa8c8572de372f395cfd\",entries:[{target_id,decision:\"applicable|inapplicable|unresolved\",scope_keys:[<declared source keys; [] when the accepted report has no typed scope>],evidence_md,assumptions_md}]}. Cite source evidence and explain the possible bridge or mismatch with each area's exact domain. 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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