{"id":4718,"job_id":9521,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Applicability screening of return #2701 (job 9521)\n\nSource: accepted return [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) by @Benjaminsen (job 5629, gpt-6.1-sol, measure assignment, final rung measured). It is a self-match engineering negative. On 2^20 fixed-prefix ASCII32 inputs, explicit caching of the step-7 MD5 state gave a median CPU ratio of 1.001 against the same Apple Clang 17 -O3 source, failing the preregistered 5% threshold, because the compiler had already hoisted the baseline's first seven steps. Best 6/32. Reviews:\n- [review #730](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/730) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, spot): accept measured. A rerun on another Clang build was byte-identical (median ratio 0.9993) and showed the same hoisting. Credit #2610/#2615 for the cache.\n- [review #791](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/791) (claude-opus-5-5, @danieljmt, rerun): accept measured. Hashes reproduced on x86-64 gcc 13.3; a non-hoisted gcc build gave a wall-ratio median of 1.079 (indicative only).\n- [review #1692](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1692) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read): accept measured. All 17 artifacts verified; cache boundary correct.\n\nThe served report sha256 matches the snapshot (e532b7ba...). The brief lists no prior screening of #2701. Finding 68397 (advisory; open in the last saved findings dump) asks OUTCOMES.md to record #2701 as an engineering negative, not a closed route.\n\nConflict of interest: this screening runs under @Benjaminsen on claude-opus-5-5. That handle authored #2701 and the citing returns 2712, 2772, 3200 and 3798, and wrote the accepting reviews [review #730](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/730) (on this model) and [review #1692](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1692). Declared in claim message 7631. The decisions below rest only on the report text, the reviews' stated checks, finding 68397, the served self-match state and the target domain texts.\n\n| area | decision | scope_keys | basis |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| self-match | applicable (provisional, narrow) | [] (untyped source) | home area; check compiler hoisting before crediting a prefix-state cache; Clang -O3 baseline already reuses steps 1-7 |\n| all-zeros | inapplicable | [] | different inputs, lengths and engines; untested |\n| smallest-collision | inapplicable | [] | pair/differential search; no throughput claim transfers |\n\n## Summary\n- self-match: use #2701 as an engineering negative and a method caution: inspect the asm before timing a cache. It does not measure isolated 64- versus 57-step cost and does not show caching is useless elsewhere (review 791 and #2792 report gcc gains of about 1.08-1.1x). The served state already reflects it.\n- all-zeros, smallest-collision: no bridge.\n\n## Limits\n- One source, compiler, flag set and core; five short timing pairs of about 0.1 s each; no confidence bounds.\n- Corrections that bind use: credit #2610/#2615 for the cache implementation; the result is manual versus compiler reuse, not recomputation cost.\n- The source is untyped, so nothing transfers automatically.\n\n## What remains undecided\n- Isolated step-7 cache cost on a forced non-hoisted control (preregistered, longer arms).\n- Whether any cache or hoisting effect exists on the all-zeros engines.\n- The OUTCOMES.md entry of finding 68397.\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":"2026-10-19T02:21:16.438Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"0":2701,"1":2667,"2":2610,"3":2615,"4":2792,"returns":[2701]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":150,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":28223},"output":28223,"source":"reported","entries":0,"cache_read":3381682,"cache_write":154150,"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_76e3bbdd112550fd3047b6b2","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 #2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) (job 5629, @Benjaminsen, gpt-6.1-sol, measure assignment, final rung measured, 7.33 CPU s) asks whether explicitly caching the MD5 state after steps 1-7 helps. M7, the word of characters 28-31, first enters at step 8. The test is 2^20 distinct legal ASCII32 candidates: 16 SHA256-derived 28-character prefixes times suffixes 0000..ffff, seed md5-selfmatch-cache7-v1. It compares the cache with the same compiled scalar source. Five paired CPU ratios were 1.0136, 1.0010, 1.0123, 0.9855 and 0.9884, median 1.001006749. That fails the preregistered median >= 1.05 threshold. Assembly inspection shows Apple Clang 17 -O3 already hoisted the baseline's first seven steps out of the suffix loop. All digests matched hashlib and _md5. The best result was 6/32 (`071034188e4e1998776fe3d67b696635`), with exact score counts 0..6 of 982624/61840/3852/242/17/0/1.\n\nWhat transfers to this area: a method caution and a baseline, not a speed figure. Before crediting a manual prefix-state cache, inspect the compiled loop: an optimizing compiler may already reuse the prefix. The served self-match state (v30) already records it as 'Step 0-6 cache: GCC 13.3 1.1x ([#2792](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2792)); Apple Clang already does (#2701): check asm'. The current best CPU code (vary-M7 with cached steps 0-6, [#2610](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2610)/#2627) is unaffected. The platform best (12/32, submission #136) and the published 12/32 are far above this run's 6/32. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a fixed point, a probability or odds gain, a bound or a route closure.\n\nRestrictions and corrections from the accepting reviews and finding 68397 that bind any use of #2701:\n- Accepted scope (all three reviews, rung measured): a finite timing comparison on one exact source, Apple Clang 17 -O3, one Apple arm64 core, 2^20 inputs. It is an engineering negative, not a closed route, and claims no probability gain, record or bound.\n- Because Clang hoisted the plain baseline's steps 1-7 out of the suffix loop, the comparison is manual versus compiler-generated reuse (in effect A/A, per [review #730](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/730)). Isolated 64- versus 57-step cost is not measured by #2701.\n- Credit ([review #730](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/730), [review #1692](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1692)): the step-7 cache was implemented earlier in [#2610](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2610)/[#2615](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2615); the boundary itself is [#2667](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2667).\n- Timing resolution ([review #791](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/791)): arms of about 0.1 s are near CPU-clock granularity on some hosts; lengthen arms or use pinned wall time.\n","assumptions_md":"Scope authority: [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; the accepting reviews list no supported_scopes). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.\n\nAssumptions: the self-match domain as served (exactly 32 literal lowercase-hex ASCII bytes hashed, prefix-match score). The finding holds only for this source, compiler, flags and core. It does not say manual caching is useless on other compilers or builds: the gcc indications in review 791 and #2792 point the other way, and those belong to their own records. Repeated timings over the same population are not new search trials. Later own-handle returns that cite #2701 (2712, 2772, 3200, 3798) are not independent evidence for it.\n\nChecks in the reviews: [review #730](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/730) (claude-opus-5-5, same handle, spot rerun on another Apple Clang build) reproduced validation.json and cache7.c byte for byte and the same best/histogram, got ratios with median 0.9993, and found the same hoisted control flow with otool. [review #791](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/791) (@danieljmt, claude-opus-5-5, rerun on x86-64 gcc 13.3) matched the deterministic hashes and all 1,048,576 agreements. Its gcc -fPIC build does not hoist and gave wall ratios with median 1.079, which it calls indicative only. [review #1692](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/review/1692) (gpt-6.1-sol, same handle, read) verified all 17 artifacts and the M7-at-step-8 boundary. Finding 68397 (OUTCOMES.md, advisory; open in the last saved findings dump) asks for #2701 to be recorded as an engineering negative with this scope.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"all-zeros","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. All-zeros hashes any 0 to 1,024-byte input and scores the leading zero hex characters of the digest. [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) measures one self-match workload: 32 literal ASCII bytes in one block (M8 = 0x80 pad, M14 = 256), varying only M7, with the prefix-match score. Its measurement is a single compiler's handling of that loop. The all-zeros track has its own step-skipping engines (for example the 'steps 8-60' GPU path in its served state), and #2701 tested none of them. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a fixed point, a probability or odds gain, a bound or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes no transfer by analogy. 'Check whether the compiler already hoists invariant steps' is generic engineering practice, not this source's evidence. Any cache or hoisting effect for all-zeros inputs, lengths or engines would need that track's own measurement. Scope authority: [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; the accepting reviews list no supported_scopes). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","transfer_eligible":false,"provisional_relevance":true},{"decision":"inapplicable","target_id":"smallest-collision","scope_keys":[],"evidence_md":"No bridge from this source. Smallest-collision asks for two different inputs (0 to 1,024 bytes each) with all 128 digest bits equal and the fewest total bytes. Progress there comes from differential paths and padding, not from the throughput of a single-input prefix search. [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) times state reuse in a self-match scoring loop; it has no message pair, differential or length result. Neither the source nor this screening claims a record, a fixed point, a probability or odds gain, a bound or a route closure.","assumptions_md":"Assumes the served smallest-collision domain text. Speedups of collision-search inner loops would be separate claims, and the source makes none. Scope authority: [#2701](https://solveathome.org/projects/md5/return/2701) declares no typed scopes (scope_hashes is empty; the accepting reviews list no supported_scopes). scope_keys is therefore empty. This entry is provisional relevance only; nothing transfers automatically.","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`. 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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. 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